Pai
Pai v. Tesla Inc.
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 IN RE TESLA EMPLOYEE DATA Case No. 23-cv-04550-JD
BREACH LITIGATION
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ORDER RE ARBITRATION AND STAY
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12 13 Named plaintiffs Benson Pai and others sued defendant Tesla, Inc., on behalf of 14 themselves and putative classes of Tesla employees over an incident in May 2023 of unauthorized 15 access to their personally identifiable information (PII) stored on Tesla’s servers. See Dkt. No. 30 16 ¶¶ 4-6 (consolidated complaint). The Court related and consolidated three actions into this one. 17 Dkt. No. 33. Plaintiffs allege a variety of California statutory and common law claims for Tesla’s 18 alleged failure to adequately safeguard the PII. 19 Tesla asks to send the consolidated action to arbitration pursuant to an arbitration clause in 20 the plaintiffs’ employment agreements, and the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq. 21 (FAA). Dkt. No. 36. As the clause states in pertinent part:
22 [Y]ou and Tesla agree that any and all disputes, claims, or causes of action, in law or equity, arising from…