5th Circuit Upholds Arbitration Order In Delivery Driver’s Wage Class Suit

Mealey's (April 27, 2018, 10:56 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Arbitrabilty is a “threshold question” to be determined at the outset of a case, not following a class certification ruling, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled April 25, affirming a trial court’s dismissal of a delivery driver’s wage-and-hour class complaint and enforcement of an arbitration clause in the driver’s independent contractor agreement (Dewey Edwards, et al. v. DoorDash, Incorporated, No. 17-20082, 5th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 10474)....