Adkins v. Labor Ready, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that the plaintiff’s failure to offer any evidence regarding the costs of arbitration “renders his further complaint about the inability to bring a class action moot”
• holding that there is “no suggestion in the text, legislative history, or purpose of the FLSA that Congress intended to confer a nonwaivable right to a class action under that statute”
• acknowledging that “the existence of large arbitration costs could preclude a litigant ... from effectively vindicating her federal statutory rights in the arbitral forum”
• holding that FLSA claims may properly be resolved in mandatory arbitration proceedings
• remarking that a ruling of unconscionability based solely on the gross bargaining disparities between the parties “could potentially apply to every contract of employment in our contemporary economy”
• acknowledging that \the existence of large arbitration costs could preclude a litigant . . . from effectively vindi- cating her federal statutory rights in the arbitral forum\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).