Staiar's Administrator v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that there was no waiver where the party moved to compel arbitration one week after removal
• “Nothing in the record (other than [plaintiffs] bald assertion to the contrary in his opposition) suggests that this document is anything other than what it appears to be--namely, the executed Agreement between [plaintiff] and [defendant].”
• “[Employee] then signed the [arbitration] Agreement using this unique password . . . . There is no question of fact: [Employee] signed the Agreement.”
• “Dollar Tree attached Gonder’s executed arbitration agreement, which clearly carries Gonder’s electronic signature. Nothing in the record (other than Gonder’s bald assertion to the contrary in his opposition
• “[The defendant]’s participation in the EEOC and [New York State Division of Human Rights] investigations, while engaging [the plaintiff]’s claims on their merits, is not considered ‘litigation’ for the purposes of determining waiver.”
• “It is well settled that Congress intends Title VII claims to be arbitrable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).