Booker, Timothy R. v. Robert Half Intl Inc

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that arbitration agreement's ban on punitive damages was not enforceable because civil rights statute under which the plaintiff was proceeding provided for punitive damages
• concluding that arbitration agreement’s ban on punitive damages was not enforceable because civil rights statute under which the plaintiff was proceeding provided for punitive damages
• holding that an arbitration agreement that gave the arbitrator discretion about what discovery to allow was enforceable despite the plaintiffs speculation that the arbitrator might not provide him with adequate discovery
• holding that agreements to arbitrate statutory claims are valid “so long as the agreement does not lequire the claimant to forgo the substantive rights afforded under the statute”
• concluding that severing an unenforceable contract provision was appropriate when the agreement at issue contained a severability clause and the plaintiff challenged \only one discrete illegal provision in the agreement\
• concluding that severing an unenforceable contract provision was appropriate when the agreement at issue contained a severability clause and the plaintiff challenged “only one discrete illegal provision in the agreement”

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