Legal Opinion
Hunt v. Moore Bros., Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 29, 2017No. 16-2055PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Chief Judge.
James Hunt worked as a truck driver in Nebraska. On July 1, 2010, he signed an Independent Contractor Operating Agreement with Moore Brothers, a small company located in Norfolk, Nebraska. Three years later, Hunt and Moore renewed the Agreement. Before the second term expired, however, relations between the parties soured. Hunt hired Attorney Jana Yo-cum Rine to sue Moore on his behalf. She did so in federal court, raising a wide variety of claims, but paying little heed to the fact that the Agreements contained arbitration clauses. Rine resisted arbitration, primarily on…
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