state court remedies, the court noted that it was proper to provide a time limit to the petitioner, for him to present claims to the state courts and return to the federal court, “normally 30 days” after a stay is entered by the federal district court, and 30 days after exhaustion is completed in state court. Id. at 381. The court noted that “[i]f either condition of the stay is not met, the stay may later be vacated nunc pro tunc as of the date the stay was entered, and the petition may be dismissed.” Ibid. The First, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits have taken a somewhat similar approach to this question, although the degree of discretion given to the district court in this matter appears to vary. See, e.g., Nowaczyk v. Warden, New Hampshire State Prison, 299 F.3d 69, 79 (1st Cir.2002) (<HOLDING>); Freeman v. Page, 208 F.3d 572, 577 (7th Cir.
recognizing that courts routinely take judicial notice of documents filed in other courts recognizing district courts authority to dispose of contempt action for violation of automatic stay of bankruptcy holding that a lower court should not take any action once appeal is filed which would interfere with the appeal process or with the appellate courts jurisdiction holding bia did not err in determining request for stay of voluntary departure is not an implicit request for a withdrawal of voluntary departure holding that district courts should take seriously any request for a stay