Amanda S. May v. Higbee Company, Doing Business as Dillard's William Carr

KING, Chief Judge:

Plaintiff Amanda May sued her employer Higbee Co. (d/b/a Dillard’s) and a supervisor for employment discrimination under Title VII. The defendants moved to compel arbitration and to stay the judicial proceedings. The district court denied the motion, ruling that May had not assented to her employer’s arbitration program. Concluding that the district court should have ordered arbitration pursuant to the parties’ binding agreement, we reverse.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

May began working at a Dillard’s department store in June 1990, and she later rose to become the…