"suspend the case" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to taking a period of rest from a particular legal case. For example, "The judge decided to suspend the case for two weeks while they considered the new evidence."
"The court granted Apple's request to suspend the case".
FIFA, soccer's governing body, said that the lead investigator, Robert Torres, had found unspecified "circumstances which made it advisable to provisionally suspend" the case.
A three-member appeals court is due to rule in the next few days on the defense motion to suspend the case because of General Pinochet's mental health.
The lawyer, Mr. Baru, said that before seeking to consult with Mr. Kalugin, he would try to persuade the court to suspend the case on the grounds that a trial in absentia is inherently unfair.
Sudan's president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, has been indicted on charges of genocide, but the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has been forced to suspend the case because world powers have not moved to arrest him.
The United Nations Security Council may suspend the case, and some Council members, like China and Russia, have already indicated that they are leaning this way, saying the allegations against Mr. Bashir are complicating peace efforts.
Suspending the case looks hesitant and weak again.
Later another military judge will consider suspending the case of five men charged with plotting the 9/11 attacks.
But before Mr Chirac entered the dock, the judge accepted a legal objection from one of his co-defendants and suspended the case for up to three months.
Judge Carrie Panetta of Alameda County Superior Court temporarily suspended the case against One L. Goh after two psychiatric evaluations concluded that he had paranoid schizophrenia.
A Budapest court in July suspended the case against Csatáry because of double jeopardy, as the charges filed by Hungarian prosecutors were similar to those in his 1948 conviction.
