Brown
Brown v. Quantcast Corp.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 TAG BROWN, Case No. 19-cv-05773-EMC
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S
v. MOTION TO COMPEL
ARBITRATION; AND STAYING CASE
QUANTCAST CORP., Docket No. 22 Defendant.
12 13 Plaintiff Tag Brown has filed a putative class and collective action against Defendant Quantcast Corp., his former employer. According to Mr. Brown, “Quantcast is a website analytics company.” Compl. ¶ 14. He worked for Quantcast as a sales representative for which he was paid a salary plus commissions. He was deemed exempt from overtime pay. See Compl. ¶ 26. Mr. Brown has brought suit because he maintains that Quantcast misclassified him and others similarly situated as exempt from overtime. Mr. Brown has asserted a claim for failure to pay overtime under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) as well as a claim for violation of California Business & Professions Code § 17200. Since Mr. Tag has filed suit, five other former employees 22…