RSL Funding, LLC v. Pippins

The trial court and appellate decisions underlying this interlocutory appeal predate, but implicate, our decision in Kennedy Hodges, L.L.P. v. Gobellan, 433 S.W.3d 542 (Tex.2014). There we said that “a party who litigate[s] one claim with an opponent d[oes] not substantially invoke the litigation process for a related yet distinct claim against another party with whom it had an arbitration agreement.” Id. at 545 (citing In re Serv. Corp. Int’l, 85 S.W.3d 171,175 (Tex.2002)).

Here, one of the parties, petitioner RSL Funding, LLC (RSL), has arbitration agreements with three individuals—Che-veze…