Edmond Carmona v. Domino's Pizza, LLC

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

EDMOND CARMONA, No. 21-55009 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. and 8:20-cv-01905-

JVS-JDE

ABRAHAM MENDOZA; ROGER

NOGUERIA, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, OPINION Plaintiffs,

v.

DOMINO’S PIZZA, LLC, a Michigan Corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California James V. Selna, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 15, 2021 Pasadena, California

Filed December 23, 2021 CARMONA V. DOMINO’S PIZZA

Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw, Barrington D. Parker, * and Andrew D. Hurwitz, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Hurwitz

SUMMARY **

Federal Arbitration Act / California Labor Law

The panel affirmed the district court’s order denying Domino’s Pizza, LLC’s motion to compel arbitration in a putative class action brought by Domino’s drivers, asserting violations of various California labor laws.

The district court denied the motion based on its finding that the drivers were a “class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce,”…