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Eighth Circuit· 3/25/2015

Torres v. Simpatico, Inc.

Citations

  • 781 F.3d 963
  • 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 4830
  • 2015 WL 1314863

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  • the challenger “bear[s] the burden of showing that individual arbitration would be prohibitively expensive, and that it is likely, as opposed to merely speculative, that the prohibitive costs will actually be incurred”
  • “Because arbitration is a matter of contract, whether an arbitration provision is valid is a matter of state contract law, and an arbitration provision may be invalidated by generally applicable contract defenses, such as fraud, duress, or unconscionability[.]”

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Judges: Shepherd, Smith, Wollman

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