Rafique
Rafique v. Premier Financial Alliance, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ANEELA RAFIQUE, et al., Case No. 23-cv-00732-JST
Plaintiffs,
ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS’
v. MOTION TO LIFT STAY
PREMIER FINANCIAL ALLIANCE, INC., Re: ECF No. 45 et al., 11 Defendants.
12 Before the Court is Plaintiffs’ motion to lift the stay of this case pending arbitration. ECF No. 45. The Court finds this motion suitable for resolution without oral argument, see Fed. R. Civ. P. 78(b); Civil L.R. 7-1(b), and will now grant the motion. I. BACKGROUND This is an employment case brought by Plaintiffs Aneela Rafique, Haidee Collado, and John Soo-Hoo against Defendants Premier Financial Alliance, Inc. (“PFA”), David Carroll, and Jack Wu. ECF No. 1. Defendants moved to compel arbitration, ECF No. 17, and the Court held that motion in abeyance after it found “genuine issues of material fact as to whether the parties formed an arbitration agreement,” ECF No. 37 at 3 (quoting Hansen v. LMB Mortg. Servs., Inc., 1 F.4th 667, 672 (9th Cir.…