Garcia

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CLAUDIA GARCIA,

Case No. 19-cv-07807-RS Plaintiff, 11 v. ORDER FOR FURTHER BRIEFING 12 ISS FACILITY SERVICES, INC., et al., 13 Defendants.

15 The extensive procedural history of this action is reflected in prior orders, is known to the parties, and will not be recited here. Pertinent to the pending motion is that on September 30, 2024, the court issued an order providing, among other things, that the classes proposed by plaintiff Claudia Garcia would be certified, limited to employees of defendants ISS Facility Services, Inc. and ISS Facility Services California, Inc. (collectively “ISS”) who worked at the El Dorado Hills facility. See Dkt. No. 136. The certification order acknowledged a question remained as to whether Garcia would ultimately be able to satisfy the “numerosity” requirement to support class treatment, given ISS’s assertions that nearly all of its employees at the El Dorado Hills site had executed arbitration agreements. Id. …