Jonathan Gold v. Deutsche Aktiengesellschaft, Deutsche Morgan grenfell/c.j. Lawrence, Inc., Peter Nason, and Gregory Williams

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• affirming that Title VII claims are arbitrable under the FAA and the Civil Rights Act of 1991
• noting that we have ʺconclude[d], along with the majority of other circuits, that Title VII claims could be subject to compulsory arbitrationʺ
• “[I]t was ultimately [the plaintiffs] responsibility to ensure he understood the document that he signed.”
• employee’s signed contract containing arbitration clause sufficient to establish agreement to arbitrate under New York law
• “Whether one can be bound by an arbitration clause is usually determined by looking at generally accepted principles of contract law.”
• “[I]n the absence of fraud or other wrongful act on the part of another contracting party, a party ‘who signs or accepts a written contract . . . is conclusively presumed to know its contents and to assent to them.’” (quoting Metzger v. Aetna Ins. Co., 227 N.Y. 411, 416 (1920)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).