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· 10/2/2008

Guyden v. Aetna, Inc.

Citations

  • 544 F.3d 376
  • 28 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 289
  • 2008 CCH OSHD 32,970
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 20783
  • 91 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 43,337
  • 2008 WL 4426478

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that an “attack on [a] confidentiality provision is, in part, an attack on the character of arbitration itself”
  • finding that Congress did not intend for claims brought under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to be non-arbitrable
  • rejecting whistleblower’s argument that she should be able to inform co- workers of her claim
  • “[C]onfidentiality clauses are so common in the arbitration context that [an] attack on the confidentiality provision is, in part, an attack on the character of arbitration itself.”
  • “[I]f some, but not all, of the claims in the case are arbitrable, [a court] must then decide whether to stay the balance of the proceedings pending arbitration.”
  • Section 1514A “protects ‘employees when they take lawful acts to disclose information or otherwise assist . . . in detecting and stopping actions which they reasonably believe to be fraudulent.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Pooler, Hall, Gleeson

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