Superior Court of California

County of Los Angeles

Department 36

MARIA MARTINEZ, an individual, Plaintiff, v. PILGRIM PLACE IN CLAREMONT, a California corporation; and DOES 1 through 50, inclusive, Defendants.

Case No.: 20STCV17359

Hearing Date: 11/23/2020

[TENTATIVE] RULING RE: Defendant’s Motion to Compel Arbitration

Hearing on the instant motion is continued to January 11, 2021.

Plaintiff is permitted to file a supplemental response and/or objection within 15 days.

New Evidence with Reply

Defendant Pilgrim Place in Claremont (“Pilgrim Place”)’s Declarant Odie Tollefson is the Vice President of Human Resources of Defendant since 2017, and was Defendant’s Director of HR since July 2, 2014. (Tollefson Decl. ¶ 2.)

Defendant’s motion to compel arbitration asserted that Defendant distributed an Handbook in 2016 and the Arbitration Agreement here in dispute at a Grounds/Housekeeping Department meeting in 2016; and that employees were given the opportunity to ask questions about