Caviani

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 RON CAVIANI, Case No. 19-cv-01645-EMC

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S

v. MOTION TO COMPEL

ARBITRATION AND STAY

MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION, PROCEEDINGS Defendant. Docket No.

12 13 Plaintiff Ron Caviani filed suit in Alameda County superior court alleging various FEHA discrimination claims. Defendant Mentor Graphics removed to federal court. Docket No. 1. The parties exchanged multiple meet-and-confer correspondences regarding the enforceability of an arbitration agreement. Pending before the Court is Defendant’s motion to compel arbitration and to stay proceedings (“Mot.”). Docket No. 24. I. BACKGROUND The parties do not dispute most facts. Defendant extended an offer of employment to Plaintiff on June 18, 2008; he signed the following day. Mot. at 2; Opp. at 4. Plaintiff began working on June 26, 2008, and he signed the at-issue arbitration agreement…