Valencia

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CARMEN VALENCIA, Plaintiff, No. C 22-06875 WHA

v.

MATTRESS FIRM, INC., ORDER GRANTING IN PART

MOTION TO COMPEL

Defendant.

ARBITRATION AND DISMISS AND

STAYING CASE

16 INTRODUCTION In this wage-and-hour representative action brought under California’s Private Attorneys General Act, defendant moves to compel arbitration of the individual portion of plaintiff’s claim and dismiss the representative portion for lack of statutory standing. Plaintiff opposes and requests a stay in anticipation of a forthcoming California Supreme Court decision that will squarely address the standing issue. For the reasons stated below, defendant’s motion is GRANTED IN PART and this case is STAYED. STATEMENT Plaintiff Carmen Valencia began working for defendant Mattress Firm, Inc., in October 2017. As part of the employee onboarding process, plaintiff was required to review, …