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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 HUI MA, et al., Case No. 3:21-cv-00856-WHO

Plaintiffs,

ORDER GRANTING MOTIONS TO

v. COMPEL ARBITRATION

GOLDEN STATE RENAISSANCE Re: Dkt. Nos. 42, 44, 45,

VENTURES, LLC DBA GOLDEN GATE

GLOBAL, et al., Defendants. 12 13 The plaintiffs, five Chinese citizens, invested in and through the defendants, an interrelated group of U.S. corporations and their officers, to obtain permanent residence through the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program (“EB-5 Program”). They claim that the defendants misused the money, committed fraud, breached their fiduciary duties, and a host of related claims. The defendants all move to compel the claims to arbitration; the plaintiffs oppose those motions because, according to them, they never assented to the contracts that include arbitration agreements. For the reasons that follow, applying standard contract-law principles, the plaintiffs at least assented to delegate the arbitrability of these claims to…