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141567P.pdf 03/25/2015 Jose Torres v. Simpatico, Inc.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 14-1567
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] Wollman, Author, with Smith and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Arbitration. Arbitration provision in plaintiffs' franchise
agreements was enforceable and was not unconscionable because of the costs
associated with individual arbitration proceedings; argument that the
agreements were unconscionable because they waived punitive or exemplary
damages and attorneys' fees went to the merits of the dispute and were for
the arbitrator to resolve; agreements were broad enough to permit
non-signatory parties, as third party beneficiaries of the agreement, to
invoke and enforce the arbitration provision.