SmileDirectClub, Inc. v. Colorado
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 SMILEDIRECTCLUB, INC., et al., Case No. 23-cv-01189-WHO
Petitioners,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
v. DISMISS AND DENYING PETITION
TO COMPEL ARBITRATION
RENEE COLORADO, Re: Dkt. Nos. 1, 20 Respondent.
12 Respondent Renee Colorado has moved to dismiss a petition to compel arbitration brought by petitioners SmileDirectClub, Inc. and SmileDirectClub, LLC (collectively, “SDC”). Dkt. No. 20. If this matter sounds familiar, it is: I previously granted a motion to compel arbitration in a related putative class action of which Colorado admits he is an unnamed member: Navarro v. SmileDirectClub, Inc., No. 22-CV-00095-WHO, 2022 WL 1786582, at *1 (N.D. Cal. June 1, 2022). After I granted SDC’s motion to compel arbitration in Navarro, Colorado filed his own arbitration demand, seeking declaratory relief as a putative class member that the Navarro claims were not arbitrable and attaching the First Amended Complaint filed in Navarro. See Dkt. No. 1, Ex. A. But…