Magistrate Judge Sets Motion Hearing in Google Pixel Phone Arbitration Case

U.S. Magistrate Judge Reid Neureiter vacated a scheduling conference for July 27 and replaced it with a telephonic motion hearing on the same day for Google and plaintiff Steve Nichols to argue their positions on Google’s motion to compel arbitration in an April fraud case in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver (see 2304240055), said a Thursday minute order (docket 1:23-cv-01022). Google argued in a Tuesday motion to compel that Nichols agreed to dispute claims in a Pixel 5 phone through arbitration when he accepted the phone’s terms of service. Nichols owns three Pixel 5 devices and didn't opt out of the arbitration agreement “in any of the three instances,” Google said.