Tesla Motors, Inc. v. Balan, 134 F.4th 558 (9th Cir. 2025)

Tesla Motors and Elon Musk prevailed in an arbitration proceeding against a former employee based on California’s one-year statute of limitations.  Tesla and Musk subsequently petitioned the United States District Court for the Northern District of California to confirm the arbitration award in their favor.  The district court granted the petition to confirm, but the Ninth Circuit vacated the order and remanded the action to the district court with instructions to dismiss the action for lack of jurisdiction based on the failure to satisfy the $75,000 amount-in-controversy requirement necessary to establish diversity jurisdiction in federal court.