Cottrell

1 2 3 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 4 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 5 6 DAVID COTTRELL, Case No. 19-cv-07672-JCS

7 Plaintiff,

ORDER LIFTING STAY

v. 8 Re: Dkt. No. 39 9 AT&T INC., et al., Defendants. 10

11 12 The Court previously denied a motion by Defendants AT&T Inc., Pacific Bell Telephone 13 Co., and DIRECTV, LLC (collectively, “AT&T”) to compel arbitration, but granted AT&T’s 14 motion to stay the case based on two pending petitions for certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme 15 Court to consider whether a California doctrine prohibiting waiver of a plaintiff’s right to public 16 injunctive relief, as set forth in McGill v. Citibank, N.A., 2 Cal. 5th 945, 959 (2017), is preempted 17 by the Federal Arbitration Act. See Order re Mot. to Compel Arbitration & Stay (dkt. 37).1 The 18 Court ordered the parties to file a status report within two weeks after the Supreme Court resolved 19 those petitions reflecting the parties’ positions on whether the stay should be lifted. The Supreme 20 Court denied both petitions on June 1, 2020; AT&T filed a notice of appeal of this Court’s 21 …