| Volume 141 Number 26 |
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Court rules arbitrator decides class action issue. The Eleventh Circuit affirmed a district court ruling that an arbitrator, and not the court, must determine whether the agreement between the airline and members of its $9 Fare Club allows for a class arbitration. “The parties’ agreement plainly chose AAA rules,” the appeals court said. “Those rules include AAA’s supplementary rules for class arbitrations, which, true to their name, supplement the other AAA rules. Supplementary Rule 3 provides that an arbitrator shall decide whether an arbitration clause permits class arbitration. Spirit Airlines Inc. v. Maizes et al., case number 17-14415, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Click here for more.