Wise
Wise v. InterContinental Hotels Group Resources, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 MARK WISE, Case No. 24-cv-01161-AMO
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
v. STAY AND VACATING CASE
MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE
INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS GROUP RESOURCES, INC., et al., Re: Dkt. No. 18 11 Defendants.
12 Relying on the first-to-file rule and the Court’s inherent power, InterContinental Hotels Group Resources, LLC, IHG Management (Maryland) LLC, Intercontinental Hotels of San Francisco, Inc., and Six Continents Hotels, Inc. (together, “Defendants”) move to stay this putative wage and hour class action pending resolution of class certification proceedings in a parallel case also raising wage and hour claims – Martinez v. IHG Management (Maryland) LLC, et al., No. 3:24-cv-00210-L-DEB (S.D. Cal.). ECF 18. Plaintiff Mark Wise opposes the motion but offers no efficient path forward for litigating this action in coordination with the parallel case. In his opposition, he indicates that counsel for plaintiffs in both…