Kaplan
Kaplan v. The Athletic Media Company
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 REBECCA KAPLAN, et al., Case No. 23-cv-00229-JST
Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT'S v. MOTION TO COMPEL
ARBITRATION
THE ATHLETIC MEDIA COMPANY, Re: ECF No. 26 Defendant.
12 Before the Court is Defendant The Athletic Media Company’s (“The Athletic”) motion to compel arbitration. ECF No. 26. The Court will grant the motion. I. BACKGROUND Plaintiffs Rebecca Kaplan, John Murphy, Johnny Pappas, Michael Tisa, Charlene Egizi, and Jeff Tibayan purchased subscriptions to The Athletic—“a subscription based-online sports news outlet.” ECF No. 27 ¶ 3; see ECF No. 21 ¶¶ 49, 55, 61, 67, 73, 79; see also ECF No. 27 ¶ 5. The Athletic automatically renews a user’s subscription on a monthly or annual basis depending on whether the subscriber purchased a monthlong or yearlong subscription in the first instance. See ECF No. 21 ¶ 2. The Athletic updated its Terms of Service on August 5, 2021 (“2021 Terms of Service”), as well as its Privacy…