HUGHLEY v. COCA-COLA REFRESHMENTS USA INC

Filing 7

ORDER granting 6 Motion for Order of Referral to Arbitration and Stay of Proceedings. Parties to file a report with the Court not later than 7/12/2013. Ordered by Judge Hugh Lawson on 5/15/2013. (nbp)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA
VALDOSTA DIVISION

CORNELLIUS HUGHLEY,
Plaintiff,
Civil Action No. 7:13-CV-44 (HL)

v.
COCA-COLA REFRESHMENTS USA,
INC.,
Defendant.

ORDER
This case is before the Court on a Joint Motion for Order of Referral to
Arbitration and Stay of Proceedings (Doc. 6). The motion is granted as follows.
It is ordered that the claims asserted in this action shall be arbitrated
pursuant to Coca-Cola Refreshments’ Solutions Program. If Plaintiff submits a
request for arbitration pursuant to the Solutions Program within 45 days of the
entry of this Order pursuing any or all claims asserted in his complaint, any such
claims shall relate back to the date that his complaint was filed.
Pending arbitration, the proceedings in this case are stayed. The parties
are to file a report no later than July 12, 2013 informing the Court of the status of
the arbitration. If the arbitration is not proceeding in what the Court perceives to
be a timely manner, the stay in this case may be lifted.

SO ORDERED, this the 15th day of May, 2013.
s/ Hugh Lawson_______________
HUGH LAWSON, SENIOR JUDGE
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