Kathy Lyster v. Ryan's Family Steak Houses, Inc.

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• holding that the plaintiff agreed to arbitrate her “claim of sexual harassment . . . which arose during [the plaintiff’s] employment with [defendant]” based on her agreement to arbitrate “any and all employment-related disputes”
• noting that “a party who has not agreed to arbitrate a dispute cannot be forced to do so”
• compelling arbitration when employee signed agreement to arbitrate at the time she applied for employment and reasoning that there was no unconscionability because the contractual terms were not unduly harsh
• as a matter of federal law, any doubts concerning an allegation of waiver should be resolved in favor of arbitrability
• “[a] dispute must be submitted to arbitration if there is a valid agreement to arbitrate and the dispute falls within the scope of that agreement”
• under federal presumption of arbitrability, order to arbitrate should not be denied unless it may be said with positive assurance that arbitration clause is not susceptible of interpretation that covers asserted dispute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).