· 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
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- 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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