Magistrate Judge Grants Motion To Compel Arbitration, Stays Suit Over Canceled Cruise

Mealey's (August 12, 2020, 7:32 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal chief magistrate judge in California on Aug. 4 granted a deluxe travel company's motion to compel arbitration and stay a University of California alumnus' breach of contract and bad faith class complaint arising from the travel company's failure to provide a refund for a cruise canceled because of the novel coronavirus pandemic (Guy Saperstein v. Thomas P. Gohagan & Company, et al., No. 20-03143, N.D. Calif.)....