Waffle House Arbitration Ruling May Reach Past 11th Circ.

By Neal Ross Marder, Alex Stolyar and Kelly Handschumacher (August 17, 2017, 12:55 PM EDT) -- On Aug. 7, 2017, the Eleventh Circuit unanimously vacated a district court decision denying Waffle House's motion to compel arbitration of the plaintiff job applicant's class action against Waffle House alleging Fair Credit Reporting Act violations, holding that the parties' arbitration agreement contained a broad, valid, and enforceable delegation provision that expressed the parties' clear intent to arbitrate gateway questions of arbitrability. Jones v. Waffle House Inc. (11th Cir. Aug. 7, 2017)....

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