9th Circuit Orders Additional Findings In Text Messaging Arbitration Class Dispute

(June 1, 2016, 1:39 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on May 26 reversed a trial court’s denial of arbitration in a class complaint accusing two billing aggregators of engaging in a scheme that caused Washington residents to unknowingly subscribe to premium text messaging services and ordered the trial court to make two additional findings before determining whether the billing aggregators may enforce an arbitration clause (Richard A. Geier, et al. v. m-Qube Inc., et al., No. 13-36080, 9th Cir.; 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 9640)....