In re Gssime

How courts have described this case

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• holding that employee who was responsible for half the cost of arbitration failed to carry his burden of proving that arbitration was prohibitively expensive when he introduced no evidence or authority establishing the expected cost of the arbitration
• emphasizing that appellant’s challenge was “premature” because the “cost-splitting clause state[d] that [appellee] will pay ‘the initial cost of arbitration’”
• noting that the New York Convention “generally requires the courts of signatory nations to give effect to private arbitration agreements”
• stating that in Italian Colors “the Supreme Court acknowledged the effective vindication doctrine,” which had “originated as dictum in Mitsubishi Motors”
• Jones Act antiremoval provision did not bar removal under 9 U.S.C. § 205 , which provided for removal of certain actions involving arbitration agreements
• “The party seeking to invalidate an arbitration agreement on the ground that arbitration would be prohibitively expensive bears the burden of showing the likelihood of incurring such costs.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).