Burgoon

ORDER DEFERRING RULING ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS TO COMPEL ARBITRATION AND DISMISS; AND GRANTING PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR LEAVE TO AMEND

Plaintiffs Nathan Burgoon and Caleb Landers are individuals who signed up for drug treatment programs at facilities known as “Narconon Centers.” Defendants are either Narconon Centers or affiliated in some fashion with such facilities. Plaintiffs have filed a class action against Defendants, asserting in essence that Defendants are not truly offering a drug treatment program but rather recruiting and indoctrinating vulnerable persons (because they have addictions) into Scientology. According to Plaintiffs, Defendants have engaged in fraud by (1) professing to offer a secular program not affiliated with any religion when in fact that was not the case and (2) claiming the program had a high success rate when in fact that was not the case. Plaintiffs also maintain that Defendants breached their contracts by failing to offer a secular program by not having a high success rate.

*977 Currently pending before the Court are two motions to compel arbitration or, in the alternative, to dismiss. The first motion has been brought by the following Defendants:…