Instead of paying the requisite AAA fees, DoorDash opted for the very device it had forced its workers to surrender. The company used a pending state-court class action under California's Private Attorney General Act – a case in which DoorDash once attempted to compel arbitration – to settle couriers' wage-and-hour claims for $39.5 million. And when Keller Lenkner – which is trying to block approval of the class action – went to federal court in San Francisco to compel DoorDash to honor the arbitration provision in its workers' contracts, DoorDash asked Judge Alsup to stay arbitration until the class action is approved and couriers decide whether to participate in it.