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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MICHAEL FRIDMAN, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC., et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 18-cv-02815-HSG 

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO 

STAY THE ACTION PENDING 

DECISION ON MOTION TO COMPEL

Re: Dkt. No. 63

Pending before the Court is Defendants’ Uber Technologies, Inc., Rasier, LLC, and 

Portier, LLC’s motion to stay the action until the Court rules on Defendants’ motion to compel 

arbitration. See Dkt. No. 63 (“Mot.”). Plaintiffs opposed, see Dkt. No. 64 (“Opp.”), and 

Defendants replied, see Dkt. No. 65 (“Reply”). The motion to stay is GRANTED.1

Defendants filed a motion to compel arbitration and to stay the action on September 14, 

2018, see Dkt. No. 49, which was argued and submitted on December 20, see Dkt. No. 66.

“A district court has the inherent power to stay its proceedings.” Fuller v. Amerigas 

Propane, Inc., No. 09-2616 TEH, 2009 WL 2390358, at *1 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 3, 2009). The power 

to stay is “incidental to the power inherent in every court to control the disposition of the causes 

on its docket with economy of time and effort for itself, for counsel, and for litigants.” Id.

(internal quotation omitted).

Here, a short stay until the Court rules on Defendants’ motion to compel arbitration and 

stay the action will promote economy of time and effort. See Stiener v. Apple Computer, Inc., No. 

C 07-4486 SBA, 2007 WL 4219388, at *1 (N.D. Cal. Nov. 29, 2007); Mahamedi IP Law, LLP v. 

Paradice & Li, LLP, No. 5:16-CV-02805-EJD, 2017 WL 2727874, at *1 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 14, 

 

1 The Court finds this matter appropriate for disposition without oral argument and the matter is 

deemed submitted. See Civil L.R. 7-1(b). 

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

2017) (“Courts routinely grant stays under similar circumstances.”).

Accordingly, Defendants’ motion to stay the action pending a decision on the motion to 

compel is GRANTED. All discovery shall be stayed until the Court issues a ruling on the motion 

to compel arbitration.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated:

______________________________________

HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, JR.

United States District Judge

2/11/2019

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