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MBJ Client Victories: Two Courts Uphold Mandatory Arbitration Clause in Client’s Employment Agreement
In two separate decisions, courts have upheld the mandatory arbitration clause in the employment agreement used by MBJ client, Allied Home Mortgage Capital Corporation. In a decision issued on March 31, 2010, in the case of Maria Santory v. Allied Home Mortgage Capital Corporation, et al., the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania rejected the employee’s claim that her employment agreement was unconscionable and granted Allied’s motion to compel the employee’s wage-hour and other claims to arbitration. Earlier in the year, on January 28, 2010, the Massachusetts Appeals Court in Allied Home Mortgage Capital Corporation, et al. v. John Rife, dismissed the appeal of an order compelling arbitration of Allied former employee John Rife’s counterclaims against Allied.
Diane Saunders represented Allied Home Mortgage Capital Corporation in both cases.
