Rajaee

DISCUSSION

A. Governing Law and Standard of Review “Once a trial court has compelled claims to contractual arbitration, the court has ‘very limited authority with respect to [the] pending arbitration.’” (Lew-Williams v. Petrosian (2024) 101 Cal.App.5th 97, 105-106 (Lew-Williams), quoting SWAB Financial, LLC v. E*Trade Securities, LLC (2007) 150 Cal.App.4th 1181, 1200.) As the Supreme Court explained, “A party seeking to enforce contractual arbitration is statutorily entitled to a stay of pending legal actions. [Citation.] ‘Once a court grants [a] petition to compel arbitration and stays the action at law, the action at law sits in the twilight zone of abatement with the trial court retaining merely a vestigial jurisdiction over matters submitted to arbitration’ to determine, upon conclusion of the arbitration proceedings, whether an award on the merits requires dismissal of the legal action. [Citation.] This is so, in part, because the whole point of contractual arbitration is to obviate the need for an action at law.” (Gaines v. Fidelity National Title Ins. Co. (2016) 62 Cal.4th 1081, 1096,

On April 18, 2024, Rajaee filed a notice of appeal from the court’s February…