Carter

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 JOCELYN CARTER, Case No. 21-cv-03990-TSH

Plaintiff,

ORDER COMPELLING

v. ARBITRATION

JEFFREY SPIEGEL, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 17 Defendants.

15 Defendants Jeffrey and Ryan Spiegel move to compel arbitration of Plaintiff Jocelyn Carter’s claims. For the following reasons, the Court grants the motion.1 A. The Complaint’s Allegations This case was filed in the aftermath of actor Zachary Horwitz’s infamous Ponzi scheme. As alleged here, Horwitz raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors through several de facto placement agents by representing that the money was to finance his company 1inMM Capital, LLC’s acquisition and licensing of distribution rights in specific movies, primarily from Latin America, to major media companies, mostly Netflix or HBO. Complaint, ECF No. 1, ¶¶ 19- 20. It was all a hoax, supported by forged documents, and could easily have been uncovered with a simple phone…