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MENDEZ v. PUERTO RICAN INTERN. COMPANIES, INC.

No. 07-4053.

553 F.3d 709 (2009)

Juan MENDEZ; Mercedes Cruz; Maximo Guerrero; Felipe Figueroa; Heriberto Laboy; Marcel Hippolyte; Sandro Rivera; Lucho Hernandez; Georgie Anthony Acosta; Shawn Smith; Marcelo Landers; Orlando Pagan; Michael Bynoe; Elrod Baptiste; Bertril William; Thomas Duparl; Joseph Nicholas; Orson Olando Flemming; Gregory La Force; Pius Aurelien; Catherine Sabin; Miguel Liriano; Josh Gondelec; Nathaniel Hobson; Mark Vitalis; Marco Rijo; Sabino Castillo; Ira Claxton; Alfred James; Humberto Ortiz; Joseph Oscar; Ernesto Rodriguez; Sencion Guerrero; Alfredo Diaz; Cyril Thomas; Sostenes Montilla; Angel Oscar Lopez Velasquez; Angel Oscar Martinez Velasquez; Keith Lewis Simon, Jr.; Jorge Rodriguez; Robert L. Jones Charlesman; Waldemar Olmeda; Rodolf R. Kock; Luis A. Medina; Bienvenido Carrasco; Raquel Concepcion; Jose Gonzalez; Carlos Garcia v. PUERTO RICAN INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES, INC.; Fluor Corporation, d/b/a Fluor Daniel Construction; Plant Performance Services LLC (P2S); Hovensa LLC Shawn Smith; Michael Bynoe v. Puerto Rican International Companies; Fluor Corporation d/b/a Fluor Daniel Construction; Plant Performance Service LLC; Hovensa LLC Fluor Corporation Plant Performances Services, LLC, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Opinion Filed January 26, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Simone R.D. Francis (Argued), Charles E. Engeman, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, St. Thomas, USVI, for Appellants.

Valerie M. Nannery (Argued), John Vail, Center for Constitutional Litigation, P.C., Washington, D.C., K. Glenda Cameron, Lee J. Rohn, Rohn & Cameron, L.L.C., St. Croix, USVI, for Appellees.

Before: FISHER, JORDAN and STAPLETON, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

STAPLETON, Circuit Judge:

I.

Forty-nine individual plaintiffs brought this employment discrimination and retaliation case against appellants Plant Performance Services, LLC ("PPS"), and Fluor Corporation ("Fluor"), as well as others. Appellants moved to stay the case under Section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), 9 U.S.C. § 3, alleging "on information and belief" that all of the plaintiffs at the initiation...

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