ALLIANCE BERNSTEIN INV. RES. MANAGE. v. SCHAFFRAN

Docket No. 05-4437-CV.

445 F.3d 121 (2006)

ALLIANCE BERNSTEIN INVESTMENT RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT, INC., Alliance Capital Management, LP, and Alliance Capital Management Corp., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Charles SCHAFFRAN, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: April 12, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Baumgarten, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, New York (Tracey Levy, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Lee Bantle, Bantle & Levy LLP, New York, New York (Robert Levy, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: POOLER and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges, and CHIN, District Judge.


CHIN, District Judge.

For decades, employers and employees have been litigating the issue of the arbitrability of employment discrimination claims. When the issue first arose, employers sought to require employees to arbitrate and employees resisted, preferring to take their claims to court. In this case, the roles are reversed, as the employer seeks to compel an employee to litigate in court, while the employee prefers to pursue his claims in arbitration.

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