Aguirre

I. BACKGROUND

22 Plaintiff is a former employee of Defendant. She was hired as a claims processor in 1991 23 and terminated in 2017, by which time she was a director of third-party administrators. (ECF 1-1, 24 p. 6). In October 2019, Plaintiff filed an employment discrimination suit against Defendant in 25 state court bringing seven causes of action: statutory failure to engage in the interactive process; 26 statutory failure to accommodate a disability; retaliation; statutory failure to prevent retaliation; 27 wrongful termination, and two claims of statutory discrimination. (See id. at 6-17). Plaintiff also 28 sought injunctive relief requiring Defendant to prohibit disability discrimination from occurring in its workplace. (Id. at 13). Defendant answered the lawsuit on March 19, 2020, in state court and filed a notice of removal in this Court the next day. (ECF No. 1). On June 24, 2020, Defendant filed the instant motion to compel arbitration and dismiss this action under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq. (ECF Nos. 12, 13). That same day, this Court issued a scheduling order. (ECF No. 16). However, pursuant to the parties’ 7 …