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· 4/15/2011

Soto v. STATE INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS, INC.

Citations

  • 642 F.3d 67
  • 24 Am. Disabilities Cas. (BNA) 774
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 7747
  • 2011 WL 1447757

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that Puerto Rico's Law 80 requires that an employer pay severance pay to every employee who is \discharged . . . without just cause\
  • noting that any New Mexico law requiring mutuality of obligation within an arbitration clause “would be preempted by the FAA”
  • applying Puerto Rico law and listing cases to the same effect in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Illinois, and South Carolina
  • rejecting argument that district court improperly considered documents outside scope of complaint because movant sought review under FAA as opposed to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6)
  • “[A]n arbitration agreement is not made unenforceable . . . merely because signing it was a condition of continued employment.”
  • “[A]n arbitration agreement is not made unenforceable . . . merely because signing it was a condition of continued employment.”

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Judges: Lynch, Souter, Stahl

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