Legal Opinion
Jonathan Barnett v. Dyncorp International, L.L.C.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 26, 2016No. 15-10757PublishedCited by 130 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHEN A. HIGGINSON, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff Jonathan Barnett alleges that his former employer, DynCorp International LLC, failed to give him all of the pay and benefits he was owed for work he did in Kuwait. To resolve this appeal, we must decide whether the district court properly dismissed Barnett’s putative class action complaint on the basis of a forum-selection clause in his employment contract. That decision presents a series of choice-of-law issues. Ultimately, we affirm.
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DynCorp, a private contractor that provides logistics support services to the U.S. Army, is an American company…
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