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· 5/3/2004

Tonya Cooper v. Mrm Investment Company, Terry Rogers and Larry Mays

Citations

  • 367 F.3d 493
  • 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 8622
  • 93 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1290
  • 2004 WL 938271

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that by agreeing to an arbitral forum, an employee necessarily waives his right to a jury trial
  • enforcing arbitration agreement that required internal review prior to submission of claims to arbitration
  • finding no procedural unconscionability where employee failed to present evidence that she searched for alternative employment
  • noting decisions that have “flatly rejected the claim that an arbitration agreement must contain a provision expressly waiving the employee’s right to a jury trial”
  • reversing district court’s finding that pre-employment arbitration agreement was an adhesion contract under Ten nessee law because the record was silent on whether other local' employers might have hired the Plaintiff without a similar agreement
  • finding the nonmovant failed to meet her burden because she “[left] the record silent on whether other local employers might have hired her without a similar agreement.”

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Judges: Kennedy, Gibbons, Aldrich

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