Pai
Pai v. Tesla Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 IN RE TESLA EMPLOYEE DATA Case No. 23-cv-04550-JD
BREACH LITIGATION
ORDER RE ARBITRATION AND STAY
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12 Named plaintiffs Benson Pai and others sued defendant Tesla, Inc., on behalf of themselves and putative classes of Tesla employees over an incident in May 2023 of unauthorized access to their personally identifiable information (PII) stored on Tesla’s servers. See Dkt. No. 30 ¶¶ 4-6 (consolidated complaint). The Court related and consolidated three actions into this one. Dkt. No. 33. Plaintiffs allege a variety of California statutory and common law claims for Tesla’s alleged failure to adequately safeguard the PII. Tesla asks to send the consolidated action to arbitration pursuant to an arbitration clause in the plaintiffs’ employment agreements, and the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq. (FAA). Dkt. No. 36. As the clause states in pertinent part:
[Y]ou and Tesla agree that any and all disputes, claims, or causes of action, in law or equity, arising from…