( August 30, 2023, 12:33 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A cleaning service franchisor filed an emergency motion in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals seeking to completely stay proceedings in the trial court while it appeals denial of its motion to compel to arbitration absent class members in a misclassification case; the motion was filed one day after the trial court issued an order clarifying that the trial scheduled to commence Oct. 16 “will proceed as to all class members except the 125 and will include even the 125 if our court of appeals rules in time.”...