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Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Can non-signatories be bound by your arbitration agreement? Recent ruling says “yes.”

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In a recent win for employers, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit highlighted how companies can use “incorporation by reference” to enforce arbitration agreements against workers who did...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Equitable Estoppel Can Be Invoked By a Non-Signatory Joint Employer to Compel Arbitration

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Tell me if you have heard this one before: ten companies are sued by a former employee as “joint employers”, even though the employee technically worked for, and signed a binding arbitration agreement with, only one of them....more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Arbitration Agreement Enforceable By Non-Signatory Alleged Joint-Employers

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Employees who sign an arbitration agreement with one company cannot avoid arbitration with related defendant-companies by arguing they were not parties to the agreement. The California Court of Appeal held that claims against...more

Lewitt Hackman

Beyond the Contract: Non-Signatories to an Arbitration Agreement Can Compel Arbitration

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Departing from the ruling in Soltero v. Precise Distribution earlier this year, the California Court of Appeal in the Second District in Gonzalez v. Nowhere Beverly Hills LLC, created a split of authority regarding an alleged...more

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