Broad Arbitration Provision in Narrow Non-Compete Agreement is Ambiguous, 10th Cir. Rules



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OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal appeals court has remanded the issue of whether a broadly worded arbitration agreement in a narrow non-compete contract is enforceable and requires arbitration of a wage dispute, explaining that the arbitration clause is ambiguous.

In an Aug. 8 opinion, the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals also ordered the district court to determine whether the arbitration agreement is unenforceable because it requires losing plaintiffs to pay arbitration costs.

Three former employees of Nitro-Lift Technologies L.L.C. sued the company in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, accusing it of failing to …

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