Mendez v. Puerto Rican International Companies, Inc.

FISHER, JORDAN and STAPLETON, Circuit Judges

OPINION OF THE COURT

(January 26, 2009)

Stapleton, Circuit Judge

I

Forty-nine individual plaintiffs brought this employment discrimination and retaliation case against appellants Plant Performance Services, LLC (“PPS”), and Fluor Corporation (“Fluor”), as well as others. Appellants moved to stay the case under Section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), 9 U.S.C. § 3, alleging “on information and belief’ that all of the plaintiffs at the initiation of their employment had entered into written agreements committing themselves to arbitrate disputes…