Hill v. Ricoh Americas Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an arbitration agreement that grants discretion to the arbitrator to award costs and fees did not prevent the plaintiff from pursuing Sarbanes-Oxley Act claims
• noting that the Supreme Court has made clear that “such an assumption is inappropriate”
• explaining why a defendant is not required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(c)(1) to demand a right to arbitrate in an answer
• finding no waiver where there was a four month delay, a scheduling order was entered, and plaintiff sent discovery requests
• discussing cases in which courts held that filing motions to dismiss and for summary judgment was inconsistent with enforcing the right to arbitrate
• discussing considerations a court must make when determining whether a contractual arbitration provision has been waived

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