Legal Opinion
Booker, Timothy R. v. Robert Half Intl Inc
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 1, 2005No. 04-7089PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge ROBERTS.
ROBERTS, Circuit Judge.
Statutory claims may be subject to agreements to arbitrate, so long as the agreement does not require the claimant to forgo substantive rights afforded under the statute. See, e.g., Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corp., 500 U.S. 20, 26, 111 S.Ct. 1647, 114 L.Ed.2d 26 (1991); Cole v. Burns Int’l Sec. Servs., 105 F.3d 1465, 1481 (D.C.Cir.1997). But what should a court do when confronted with a statutory claim and an arbitration agreement that is unenforceable as written, because it contains a provision purporting to…
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