Legal Opinion

Rivera-Colon v. AT&T Mobility Puerto Rico, Inc

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided January 16, 2019No. 17-2036PPublishedCited by 55 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.

Nereida Rivera-Colón ("Rivera") filed suit against her former employer, AT&T Mobility Puerto Rico, Inc. ("AT&T"), 1 alleging age discrimination and wrongful termination. After AT&T pulled out its arbitration agreement with Rivera, the district court sent the parties packing to arbitrate. Rivera now asks us to flip the district court's order and allow her to slug it out with AT&T in court. She says that she shouldn't have to arbitrate her claims because she never accepted AT&T's offer to arbitrate legal grievances in the first place. But because we conclude that she…

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