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· 9/7/2011

Krinsk v. SunTrust Banks, Inc.

Citations

  • 654 F.3d 1194
  • 80 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 749
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 18521
  • 2011 WL 3902998

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating defenses waived initially cannot be asserted in response to an amended complaint unless the amended complaint altered the scope or theory of the case
  • compelling arbitration and holding that, after nine months of litigation, the plaintiff’s filing of an amended complaint that “unexpectedly change[d] the scope or theory of the plaintiff’s claims” nullified the defendant’s arbitration waiver
  • cited 25 with approval in Burton v. Ghosh, 961 F.3d 960, 967 (7th Cir. 26 2020)
  • “The invocation of the judicial process ordinarily establishes a waiver of the defendant’s right to compel arbitration . . . .”
  • “The invocation of the judicial process ordinarily establishes a waiver of the defendant’s right to compel arbitration . . . .”
  • “[W]hen a plaintiff files an amended pleading that unexpectedly changes the shape of the case, the case may be so altered that the defendant should be relieved from its waiver.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Tjoflat, Carnes, Hill

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