Vance
Vance v. Google LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 5 STEVEN VANCE, et al., Case No. 5:20-CV-04696-BLF
Plaintiffs,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
v. STAY AND TERMINATING MOTION
TO DISMISS
GOOGLE LLC, a Delaware limited liability company [Re: ECF 33, 34] 10 Defendant.
12 Before the Court is Defendant Google LLC’s (“Google”) motion to stay all proceedings in 13 this action until the resolution of Vance v. International Business Machines, Corporation (“IBM 14 action”), currently before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. No. 1:20- 15 CV-0577, ECF 1. For the reasons set forth below, the Court GRANTS Google’s motion. 16 I. BACKGROUND On January 24, 2020, Plaintiffs Steven Vance and Tim Janecyk (collectively, “Vance”) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleging that International Business Machines, Corporation (“IBM”) violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). See…