173501P.pdf   01/10/2020  Catamaran Corporation  v.  Towncrest Pharmacy
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-3501
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Loken and Stras, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil Case - Arbitration. For extensive history of case see Catamaran 
   Corp. v. Towncrest Pharmacy, 864 F.3d 966 (8th Cir. 2017. Following remand 
   for the district court to consider whether a contractual basis for class 
   arbitration exists in the agreement of the parties, the district court 
   found there was no such contractual basis. Under recent Supreme Court 
   precedent, there must be an affirmative contractual basis; silence 
   regarding class arbitration indicates prohibition. Agreements to refer all 
   the pharmacies as a single entity does not support the conclusion that the 
   parties intended class arbitration and the intent was not so evident from 
   the terms of the written agreements. Thus, there is no contractual basis 
   to conclude the parties implicitly authorized class arbitration.