In contrast to the Texas case of last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held, in an employment discrimination and retaliation case, that forty-one plaintiffs who were not signatories to the arbitration agreement were not required to arbitrate. Mendez v. Puerto Rican Int’l Cos., No. 07-4053, (3rd Cir. 2009). The eight signatories plaintiffs, however, were compelled to arbitrate their claims.
The court stated that section 3 of the FAA ” was not intended to mandate curtailment of the litigation rights of anyone who has not agreed to arbitrate any of the issues before the court.”
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