REED ELSEVIER, INC. v. CROCKETT

No. 12-3574.

734 F.3d 594 (2013)

REED ELSEVIER, INC., through its LEXISNEXIS Division, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Craig CROCKETT, as alleged assignee of Dehart and Crockett, P.C.; Craig M. Crockett, P.C., d/b/a Crockett Firm, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: November 5, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Blair C. Fensterstock , Fensterstock & Partners LLP, New York, New York, for Appellants. Charles J. Faruki , Faruki, Ireland & Cox, P.L.L., Dayton, Ohio, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Blair C. Fensterstock , Eugene D. Kublanovsky , Fensterstock & Partners LLP, New York, New York, Patrick F. Haggerty , Lindsey A. Carr-Siegler , Frantz Ward LLP, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellants. Charles J. Faruki , Donald E. Burton , Faruki, Ireland & Cox, P.L.L., Dayton, Ohio, for Appellee.

Before: BATCHELDER, Chief Judge; MERRITT and KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge.

Craig Crockett's law firm signed an adhesion contract with LexisNexis that contained an arbitration clause. Eventually the parties had a billing dispute. The arbitration clause provided that any arbitration with respect to LexisNexis's charges must occur in the city where LexisNexis is located. That provision and others made arbitration of Crockett's individual claims economically unfeasible, so Crockett filed an arbitration...

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