Although district courts must faithfully carry out “both the letter and the spirit” of our mandates, [cite], “they are free as to anything not foreclosed by the mandate,” [cite]. Our mandate remanded the case to the district court “for a new trial on all of plaintiffs’ claims against the individual officers.” [cite] We did not specify a time frame or otherwise suggest that the district court lacked authority to stay the case. Thus, we leave to the district court to determine whether a stay pending a petition for writ of certiorari is appropriate in this case.
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