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Arbitration Cases Raising Piggybacking
Rule Abelard Comes In With Separate
Identity
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 24 – More than thirty
cases have been filed against
IBM for age discrimination,
raising questions of
arbitration and the so-called
"piggybacking"
rule.
On August 11, U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Jesse M. Furman held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
Judge
Furman has not consolidated
that cases, but has had some
twenty of them transferred to
him. IBM opposes formal
consolidation, claiming that
the employees agreed to not
engage in class actions or
administrative equivalents.
So Judge Furman
has canceled the conferences
in the other cases, and
expressed an openness to
proceeding as In Re IBM
Arbitration Cases.
On November 24,
Judge Furman held a proceeding
about the cases and a new one,
Abelard. He ruled that it will
be consolidated but "retain
its separate identity," citing
Hall v. Hall, 138 Sup. Ct.
1118 (2018). A filing is due
December 1.
This new
case is Abelard v.
International Business
Machines Corp., 21-cv-6307
(Furman).
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