11th Circuit Sends Data-Sharing DIRECTV Class Claim To Arbitration

Mealey's (February 21, 2020, 8:18 AM EST) -- ATLANTA — Reversing and remanding the denial of DIRECTV LLC’s motion to compel arbitration of a putative privacy class claim against it, an 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Feb. 19 found that the scope of an arbitration provision within a plaintiff’s customer agreement covered a claim that the satellite television carrier violated federal law by sharing customer data with an expert witness in the course of litigating a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) lawsuit (Sebastian Cordoba, et al. v. DIRECTV LLC, No. 18-14832, 11th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 5024)....