Lee W. Yeager v. FirstEnergy Generation Corporation
Whether a federal district court's outright dismissal
of a stayed action without having first lifted that stay,
to permit ruling on plaintiff's pending motion to amend
his pleading to substitute the proper party defendant,
offends the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause by
effectively denying plaintiff the right to redress his
grievance via some effective legal procedure that
includes notice and the opportunity to be heard.
Whether a federal district court's outright dismissal of a stayed action without having first lifted that stay, to permit ruling on plaintiffs pending motion to amend his pleading to substitute the proper party defendant, offends the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause by effectively denying plaintiff the right to redress his grievance via some effective legal procedure that includes notice and the opportunity to be heard