Bennett

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 CORNELIUS OMAR BENNETT, No. 2:22-cv-01239-MCE-KJN 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. MEMORANDUM AND ORDER 14 ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMMERCIAL STRATEFY, LLC, a Delaware Limited 15 Liability Company, et al., 16 Defendants. 17 18 Through this putative action, Plaintiff Cornelius Omar Bennett (“Plaintiff”), 19 individually and on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, seeks to recover 20 from Defendants Anheuser-Busch Commercial Stratefy, LLC, and Anheuser-Busch, 21 LLC, (collectively, “Defendants” or “AB”) for various purported wage and hour violations. 22 Presently before the Court is Defendants’ Motion to Compel Individual Arbitration. ECF 23 No. 17. For the following reasons, that Motion is GRANTED.1 24 /// 25 /// 26 /// 27 1 Because oral argument would not have been of material assistance, the Court ordered this 28 matter submitted on the briefs. E.D. Local Rule 230(g). 1 BACKGROUND2 2 3 Defendants are a wholesale distributor of beer, ale,…