Legal Opinion
Champ v. Siegel Trading Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 18, 1995No. Nos. 94-1619, 94-1631 and 94-1795PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
The first time we encountered this ease we concluded that at that stage it was an unap-pealable interlocutory decision under the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), 9 U.S.C. §§ 1-16. After further proceedings in the district court, we now have before us the question of whether a district court has authority to certify an individual plaintiff as a class representative of other similarly aggrieved parties whose claims are subject to arbitration. We conclude that absent a provision in the parties’ arbitration agreement providing for class treatment of disputes, a district…
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