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Employment arbitration agreements are an important tool for employers who wish to resolve workplace disputes in a more streamline fashion and, more importantly, avoid class and collective actions. However, enforcing...more
Defendant SemGroup Corp. and intervenor-defendant Cypress Environmental Management-TIR appealed an Oklahoma district court order denying their motions to compel arbitration. The plaintiff, Robert Ferrell, was a Cypress...more
This week, the Ninth Circuit simultaneously issued two decisions addressing the circumstances in which equitable estoppel can require a plaintiff to arbitrate a claim absent an arbitration agreement with the defendant. In the...more
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed the denial of a motion to arbitrate where the appellants were not parties to the agreements containing arbitration clauses. The court also concluded that equitable...more
The Eleventh Circuit recently affirmed the denial of a motion to compel arbitration based on equitable estoppel in a putative class action by victims of a cryptocurrency exchange website (Cryptsy) CEO’s theft of money derived...more
Last month the Seventh Circuit reversed a lower court order enforcing an arbitration agreement contained in cardholder agreement as applied against the minor daughter (“A.D.”) of the cardholder, rejecting the bank’s attempt...more
We have previously reported on a case styled Munoz v. PHH Corp., one of similar suits alleging putative class actions under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act arising from purported “sham” reinsurance transfers...more