We have been using the term 'mutation' pretty loosely up to this point in the course...now we need to define it more precisely: mutation-- a change in the genetic material (ie. DNA).
Stay of proceedings. A stay of proceedings is a ruling by the court in civil and criminal procedure, halting further legal process in a trial or other legal proceeding. The court can subsequently lift the stay and resume proceedings based on events taking place after the stay is ordered.
Expanding the Scope of the Automatic Stay to Co-Defendant. A basic tenet of federal bankruptcy law is that the automatic stay suspends creditor collection efforts and litigation against a debtor that files for bankruptcy protection, but does not apply to actions directed toward non-debtor third-parties. Still, there are exceptions to the rule.