Former H&R Block Manager To 8th Circuit:  There Was No Arbitration Agreement

Mealey's (September 4, 2019, 9:51 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — An attempt by franchisors H&R Block Inc. and H&R Block Tax Services LLC (collectively, H&R Block) to point to a form document it claims was the same one a former branch manager would have agreed to is insufficient to show that there was an arbitration agreement in effect, the former employee tells the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a Sept. 3 appellee brief arguing in support of a trial court’s denial of a motion to compel arbitration in her Sherman Act class complaint (Melissa Ramsey, et al. v. H&R Block, Inc., et al., No. 19-2217, 8th Cir.)....