201171P.pdf   08/11/2021  Jacqueline Morgan  v.  James Ferrell
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  20-1171
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Grasz and Kobes, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Employment discrimination. The district court erred in 
   concluding that no language in plaintiff's employment agreement suggested 
   that she consented to arbitrate tort claims arising from actions which 
   predated her employment; while her claim are based on alleged 
   misrepresentations and omissions made before and at the time she accepted 
   employment, they are subject to arbitration because they arise out of and 
   relate to the resulting employee agreement and employee relationship; 
   defendants Ferrell and Brueckmann, officers and agents of Ferrellgas who 
   were not parties to the employment agreement, may enforce the arbitration 
   clause; a signatory plaintiff cannot avoid arbitration when she treats the 
   signatory and non-signatory defendants as a single unit as she has here, 
   where each of her tort claims against the defendants is a single one that 
   should be referred in its entirety to arbitration.