Wright v. Circuit City Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding contract not illusory where both parties “are fully bound to arbitrate any employment-related disputes raised by the associate, to comply with the same procedures, and to be bound by the results”
• applying Alabama law to conclude that employee who signed receipt acknowledging that he had received company handbook with arbitration provision and who watched video explaining the arbitration program was bound to arbitrate after he failed to opt out within 30 days
• “No consideration above and beyond the agreement to be bound by [arbitration] was necessary to validate the contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).