Alyssa Palella v. Buzzfeed, Inc. ( 2020 )

1 STEVEN A. GROODE, Bar No. 210500 seroode@littler.com 2 LITTLER MENDELSON, P.C. 2049 Century Park East 3 5th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90067.3107 4 || Telephone: 310.553.0308 Facsimile: 310.553.5583 6 RAE CHUNG, Bar No. 318300 rohung@ litter. com 7 LITT MENDELSON, P.C. 633 West 5th Street 8 63rd Floor Los Angeles, CA 90071 9 || Telephone: 213.443.4300 10 Facsimile: 213.443.4299 Attorneys for Defendant 11 BUZZEEED. INC. 12 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 13 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 14 ALYSSA PALELLA, Case No. 2:20-cv-03213-PA (Ex) 5 Plaintiff, ORDER UPON STIPULATION OF 16 THE PARTIES TO SUBMIT Vv. CLAIMS TO BINDING 17 ARBITRATION BUZZFEED, A DELAWARE 18 | CORPORATION, AND DOES 1-20, 19 INCLUSIVE, Defendants. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 ORDER UPON STIPULATION 2 Pursuant to the Stipulation of the parties, and good cause appearing therefor, IT 3 || IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiff Alyssa Palella’s claims in the above- 4 || captioned matter shall be submitted to binding arbitration. 5 Here, the parties agreed to submit this entire action to binding arbitration. The 6 || Court concludes that a valid agreement to arbitrate exists and that it encompasses the 7 || claims at issue in this action. Accordingly, the parties’ Stipulation is granted in part. 8 Because all of Plaintiff's claims are subject to arbitration, the Court exercises its 9 || discretion to dismiss this action. See Thinket Ink Info. Res., Inc. v. Sun Microsystems, 10 || Inc. , 368 F.3d 1053, 1060 (9th Cir. 2004) (holding that district court did not err in 11 || dismissing claims subject to arbitration and noting that FAA allows but does not 12 || require a stay of court proceedings); Sparling v. Hoffman Constr. Co. , 864 F.2d 635, 13 || 638 (9th Cir. 1988) (affirming trial court's dismissal of claims referred to arbitration); 14 || Martin Marietta Aluminum, Inc. v. Gen. Elec. Co. , 586 F.2d 143, 147 (9th Cir. 1978) 15 || (affirming grant of summary judgment where claims were subject to arbitration); see 16 || also Pleasant v. Dollar Gen. Corp., No. EDCV 14-02645 JGB (KKx), 2015 WL 17 || 12811236, at *3 (C.D. Cal. Feb. 18, 2015) ("[T]he Ninth Circuit has held that courts 18 || have discretion to dismiss claims that are subject to an arbitration agreement. 19 Therefore, having referred Plaintiff's claims to arbitration, the Court dismisses 20 || the action without prejudice. NN 21 || DATED: May 11, 2020 Cg Sa, te Perey, Anderspn 23 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 24 25 26 27 28 2,