JOCK v. STERLING JEWELERS INC.

Docket No. 10-3247-cv.

646 F.3d 113 (2011)

Laryssa JOCK, Christy Chadwick, Maria House, Denise Maddox, Lisa McConnell, Gloria Pagan, Judy Reed, Linda Rhodes, Nina Shahmirzadi, Leighla Smith, Marie Wolf, Dawn Souto-Coons, and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellants, Jacquelyn Boyle, Lisa Follett, Khristina Rodriguez, Kelly Contreras, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants, v. STERLING JEWELERS INC., Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 1, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Sellers , Cohen, Milstein, Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, DC, ( Jenny R. Yang and Kalpana Kotagal , Cohen, Milstein, Sellers & Toll PLLC, Thomas Warren , Thomas A. Warren Law Offices, P.L., and Sam Smith , Burr & Smith, LLP on the brief) for Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellants.

Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. , Seyfarth Shaw LLP, New York, NY, ( David Bennet Ross and Daniel B. Klein , Seyfarth Shaw LLP, and Stephen S. Zashin , Zashin & Rich Co., L.P.A., on the brief) for Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee.

Judge WINTER dissents in a separate opinion.


HALL, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs, a group of retail sales employees of defendant Sterling Jewelers, Inc.'s national jewelry chain stores, appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Rakoff, J.) vacating an arbitration award on the ground that the arbitrator had exceeded her authority in light of the Supreme Court's decision in Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds International Corp., ___ U.S. ___,

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