United States Ninth Circuit

In an employment discrimination case involving an employment agreement containing a mandatory arbitration clause, denial of defendant-employer's motion to compel arbitration and partial summary judgment for plaintiff is reversed where: 1) for purposes of a breach-of-agreement theory, plaintiff did not properly initiate arbitration under the terms of his employment agreement via a letter he sent; and 2) the district court improperly granted summary judgment in plaintiff's favor on the issue of waiver.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/02/2007
• Decided 07/23/2008
• Published 07/23/2008

Judges

• Before:  DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard M. Rand, Torkildson, Katz, Fonseca, Moore & Hetherington, Honolulu, HI, for the defendants-appellants., Stephen T. Hioki, Honolulu, HI, for the plaintiff-appellee.