Caviani

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 RON CAVIANI, Case No. 19-cv-01645-EMC

8 Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S

9 v. MOTION TO COMPEL

ARBITRATION AND STAY

10 MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION, PROCEEDINGS 11 Defendant. Docket No. 24

12 13 14 Plaintiff Ron Caviani filed suit in Alameda County superior court alleging various FEHA 15 discrimination claims. Defendant Mentor Graphics removed to federal court. Docket No. 1. The 16 parties exchanged multiple meet-and-confer correspondences regarding the enforceability of an 17 arbitration agreement. Pending before the Court is Defendant’s motion to compel arbitration and 18 to stay proceedings (“Mot.”). Docket No. 24. 19 I. BACKGROUND 20 The parties do not dispute most facts. Defendant extended an offer of employment to 21 Plaintiff on June 18, 2008; he signed the following day. Mot. at 2; Opp. at 4. Plaintiff began 22 working on June 26, 2008, and he signed the at-issue arbitration agreement…