Gonzalez

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 PASCUAL GONZALEZ, Case No. 1:23-cv-00202-JLT-CDB 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO COMPEL

ARBITRATION AND STAYING CASE

14 HOOVESTOL, INC., a Delaware PENDING RESOLUTION OF Corporation; 10 ROADS EXPRESS, LLC, ARBITRATION 15 a Delaware Limited Liability Company, (Doc. 15) 16 Defendants. 17 18 Pascual Gonzalez brings this disability employment discrimination and wrongful 19 termination case against his former employers, Hoovestol, Inc. and 10 Roads Express, LLC, 20 asserting several claims under FEHA, the CFRA, and the FMLA. For the reasons set forth below, 21 the Court GRANTS Defendants’ Motion to Compel Arbitration (Doc. 15) and 22 ADMINISTRATIVELY STAYS this action pending resolution of arbitration. 23 I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY 24 Between August 2020 and February 2021, Plaintiff worked for Defendants as a 25 commercial truck driver. (Doc. 1 at ¶ 10.) Throughout his …