A dispute involving a St. Louis County dental practice will have to be litigated in court after the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District overruled a 37-year-old precedent on the enforceability of arbitration.

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The court that a man injured at a Kansas City-area business can’t recover a $3M arbitration award from an insurer for the business’ security provider.

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Where an automotive group, which was a defendant in a class action arising from its sale and marketing of hail-damaged vehicles as “brand-new” and “factory-fresh,” challenged the denial of its motion to stay a class action and compel the parties ...

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Where prison inmates brought a putative class action against a company that provides telephone services to correctional facilities, arguing that the rates and fees were unjust under the Federal Communications Act, the district  court did not err in decertifying the ...

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Defendant appealed the order overruling its motion to stay the proceedings and compel arbitration of plaintiff’s disability discrimination suit. Plaintiff claimed that she had vision issues and had her store’s assistant manager complete electronic documents for her upon plaintiff’s hiring, ...

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Where appellant, a federal crop-insurance company, challenged a district court’s order vacating an arbitration award in a dispute arising from the company’s issuance of a crop-insurance policy to a South Dakota farmer, the crop policy incorporated American Arbitration Association rules, ...

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Where appellant challenged the denial of its motion to compel the arbitration of claims brought by a former employee, the parties’ agreement included a delegation provision that required gateway issues of arbitrability to be submitted to an arbitrator, and the ...

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Defendants appealed the district court’s denial of their motion to compel arbitration. An individual unknown to plaintiff called plaintiff and asserted that a transvaginal mesh plaintiff had implanted was defective and that she could arrange for plaintiff to have the ...

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Where an employee sued his former employer and a human resources officer for disability discrimination, religious discrimination and retaliation under the Missouri Human Rights Act, and the defendant moved to dismiss or to compel arbitration, the trial court did not ...

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Where plaintiff brought an action alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and defendant challenged the denial of its motion to compel arbitration, the judgment is affirmed because the district court did not err in finding that arbitration provision ...

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Where a genealogy service, which was sued by plaintiffs who claimed that their private health information was released without permission, sought to compel arbitration, the parties delegated threshold questions of arbitrability to the arbitrator, and the trial court erred in ...

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