Legal Opinion
Torres v. Simpatico, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 25, 2015No. 14-1567PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
Jose Torres, Guadalupe Clemente, Luz Walker, Christina Beiter, and Antonio Carmona (the Appellants) appeal from the district court’s1 order granting appellees’ motion to compel individual arbitration. We affirm.
The Appellants are current or former unit franchisees of Stratus Franchising, LLC, a commercial cleaning business. Stratus Franchising sells master franchises, which grant a master franchiser the exclusive right to sell Stratus unit franchises in a particular regional market. Each Appellant entered into a standard unit-franchise agreement (Agreement) that…
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