California Crane School, Inc. v. Google LLC

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 CALIFORNIA CRANE SCHOOL, INC., Case No. 21-cv-10001-PCP

8 Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING IN PART

9 v. GOOGLE’S MOTION TO COMPEL

ARBITRATION AND GRANTING

10 GOOGLE LLC, et al., DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS TO

DISMISS

Defendants. 11 Re: Dkt. Nos. 114, 115

12 13 In this class action lawsuit against defendants Google LLC, Alphabet Inc., XXVI Holdings 14 Inc., Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt (collectively, the Google 15 defendants), as well as Apple Inc. and Apple CEO Tim Cook (collectively, the Apple defendants), 16 plaintiff California Crane School, Inc. (CCS) alleges that Google and Apple unlawfully agreed to 17 divide the online search and search advertising markets in violation of federal and state antitrust 18 laws. The Google defendants now move to compel arbitration, and all defendants move to dismiss 19 the complaint. For the reasons that follow, the Court grants in part Google’s motion to compel 20 arbitration, denying the motion only as to CCS’s claim…