Chung

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 HOPE CHUNG, et al., Case No. 21-cv-03074-JST

Plaintiffs,

ORDER DENYING PLANTIFFS’

v. MOTION FOR AN ORDER

DIRECTING MEDIATION

INTELLECTSOFT GROUP CORPORATION, et al., Re: ECF No. 103 11 Defendants.

12 Before the Court is Plaintiffs Hope Chung and Picture Mandarin LLC’s motion for an order directing mediation. ECF No. 103. The Court will deny the motion. Plaintiffs’ motion requested that the Court “direct the parties to mediation” because (1) the contracts under which the claims arise contain a “provision requiring the parties to attempt to resolve any disputes by mediation”; and (2) Defendants have refused Plaintiffs’ requests to mediate. ECF No. 103 at 3-4. Because Plaintiffs cited no authority for the request, and because the Court found caselaw suggesting that it lacks the authority to compel the parties to mediate, it ordered the parties to file supplemental briefs addressing the Court’s authority to grant Plaintiffs’ …