In Re RLS Legal Solutions, LLC

The court of appeals held that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying relators’ motion to compel arbitration of this employment dispute on the basis that relators used economic duress to force the plaintiff to agree to arbitration. In re RLS Legal Solutions, L.L.C., 156 S.W.3d 160, 165 (Tex.App.-Beaumont 2005). But the plaintiffs only evidence is that she was under duress to sign an employment agreement containing an arbitration provision; there is no evidence that she was under duress specifically to agree to arbitration apart from the other provisions of the agreement. We…