4th Circuit Upholds Arbitration Denial In Cable Tech’s Pay Class Suit

Mealey's (June 13, 2018, 12:38 PM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on June 12 affirmed denial of a motion to compel arbitration in a wage-and-hour class complaint by a cable technician, ruling that the technician’s claims don’t rely on the agreements he signed that reference arbitration and the district court did not abuse its discretion in declining to apply equitable estoppel (Patrick Weckesser, et al. v. Knight Enterprises S.E., LLC, No. 17-1247, 4th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 15751)....