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181235P.pdf 07/15/2019 Jennifer Shockley v. PrimeLending
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-1235
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Benton and Stras, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Arbitration. The district court did not err in finding that
the arbitration provision contained in defendant's employee handbook and
the delegation provision therein were not enforceable contracts, as
plaintiff and defendant never entered into a contract relating to either
provision; applying Missouri law, plaintiff's mere online review of the
subject materials did not constitute acceptance, and, without acceptance,
no contract was formed regarding the delegation provision; an arbitration
agreement lacking a valid delegation clause leaves the remaining
arbitration agreement, as a whole, open to review for validity; here the
terms of the arbitration agreement suffer from the same fatal flaw as the
delegation provision; plaintiff did not contract with defendant to
arbitrate their disputes, or to delegate the decision to an arbitrator,
and defendant cannot compel plaintiff into arbitration on her FLSA claims.