Mendez v. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

SUMMARY ORDER

Defendant-Appellant Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (“Starwood”) appeals from an Order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (McMahon, J.). The district court denied Starwood’s motion to compel Plaintiff-Appellee Moisés Mendez to arbitrate his employment discrimination claims against Starwood. Starwood bases its motion to compel upon a one-page letter-agreement between Starwood and Mendez. According to the district court, the arbitration provision in the letter-agreement is unenforceable because Mendez’s union, the New York Hotel &…