Anaya

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

GERARDO ANAYA, Case No. 24-cv-04206-VC

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING TESLA'S v. MOTION TO COMPEL

ARBITRATION

TESLA MOTORS, INC.,

Re: Dkt. No. 8, 21, 22 Defendant.

The motion to compel arbitration is granted. This order assumes the reader’s familiarity with the facts, governing legal standards, and arguments made by the parties. Anaya argues that he is exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act because he belongs to a “class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce” under Section 1 of the FAA, 9 U.S.C. § 1. A class of workers falls within that exception, commonly known as the transportation worker exception, if they “play a direct and necessary role in the free flow of goods across borders” or are otherwise “actively engaged in transportation of those goods across borders via the channels of foreign or interstate commerce.” Ortiz v. Randstad Inhouse Services LLC, 95 F.4th 1152, 1159–60 (9th Cir. 2024) (quoting Saxon v. Southwest Airlines Co., 596 U.S. 450, 458 (2022)). Workers who move goods only within a state may still fall within the exception if they play a…