Riley

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 CHARLES RILEY, No. 2:18-cv-02626-TLN-EFB 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER 14 MEDLINE INDUSTRIES, INC.; and DOES 1–100, inclusive, 15 Defendants. 16

17 18 This matter is before the Court on Defendant Medline Industries, Inc.’s (“Defendant”) 19 Motion to Compel Arbitration and Stay Proceedings. (ECF No. 6.) Plaintiff Charles Riley 20 (“Plaintiff”) filed an opposition. (ECF No. 9.) Defendant filed a reply. (ECF No. 10.) For the 21 reasons set forth below, the Court GRANTS Defendant’s motion. However, the Court STAYS 22 the action pending completion of arbitration rather than dismissing it as Defendant requests. 23 /// 24 /// 25 /// 26 /// 27 /// 28 /// 1 I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND 2 Defendant hired Plaintiff as a delivery driver in January 2017. (ECF No. 1 at 3.) Prior to 3 beginning his employment with Defendant, Plaintiff signed an employment and confidentiality 4 agreement, which included an arbitration provision. (ECF No. 9 at 8.) The…