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Nature of Suit Code: 480
Nature of Suit: Consumer Credit
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CHAD H. HAMBY, et al.,

Plaintiff,

Case No. 11cv544-BTM (BGS)

ORDER RE HEARING DATES

v.

POWER TOYOTA IRVINE, et al.,

Defendant.

Three motions in this case are outstanding. Plaintiff has filed a motion to remand

[dock. # 7], Defendant has filed a motion to compel arbitration [dock. # 8], and Plaintiff has

filed an ex parte application seeking discovery regarding unconscionability of the contract’s

arbitration clause and a stay on the motion to compel arbitration hearing to accommodate

this discovery [dock. # 9]. The motion for remand and motion to compel arbitration are

scheduled to be heard on June 10, 2011, and the ex parte application is fully briefed.

The Court has jurisdiction over a motion to compel arbitration only “if the federal court

would have jurisdiction over the underlying substantive dispute.” Geographic Expeditions,

Inc. v. Estate of Lhotka, 599 F.3d 1102, 1106 (9th Cir. 2010) (citing Vaden v. Discover Bank,

129 S. Ct. 1262, 1270-1271 (2009)). Thus, Plaintiff’s motion to remand presents a threshold

issue of subject matter jurisdiction that must be decided prior to the other outstanding

motions. Accordingly, the Court the hearing date for the motion to compel arbitration is

continued to July 22, 2011 at 11:00 a.m., and the hearing date on Plaintiff’s ex parte

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application is continued to June 17, 2011, so that the Court may first decide the motion to

remand.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

 

DATED: May 16, 2011

Honorable Barry Ted Moskowitz

United States District Judge

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