A New York state Supreme Court judge has ruled that securities cases brought in state court are subject to an automatic stay of discovery, just as they are in federal court, highlighting a divide in New York amid an uptick in filings following the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2018 ruling in Cyan.

Justice Andrew S. Borrok cited the “simple, plain and unambiguous” language of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 in holding that the statute’s automatic discovery stay applied to state court actions during a pending motion to dismiss.