Cottrell
Cottrell v. AT&T Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 5 DAVID COTTRELL, Case No. 19-cv-07672-JCS
Plaintiff,
ORDER LIFTING STAY
v. 8 Re: Dkt. No. 39 AT&T INC., et al., Defendants.
11 The Court previously denied a motion by Defendants AT&T Inc., Pacific Bell Telephone Co., and DIRECTV, LLC (collectively, “AT&T”) to compel arbitration, but granted AT&T’s motion to stay the case based on two pending petitions for certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether a California doctrine prohibiting waiver of a plaintiff’s right to public injunctive relief, as set forth in McGill v. Citibank, N.A., 2 Cal. 5th 945, 959 (2017), is preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act. See Order re Mot. to Compel Arbitration & Stay (dkt. 37). The Court ordered the parties to file a status report within two weeks after the Supreme Court resolved those petitions reflecting the parties’ positions on whether the stay should be lifted. The Supreme Court denied both petitions on June 1, 2020; AT&T filed a notice of appeal of this Court’s …