PRIME HEALTHCARE v. UNITED NURSES AND ALLIED PROF

No. 16-1161.

848 F.3d 41 (2017)

PRIME HEALTHCARE SERVICES-LANDMARK LLC, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. UNITED NURSES AND ALLIED PROFESSIONALS, LOCAL 5067, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

February 3, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher Callaci , Providence, RI, for appellant.

David C. Casey , Boston, MA, with whom Jillian S. Folger-Hartwell , Providence, RI, and Littler Mendelson, P.C. were on brief, for appellee.

Before Torruella, Lipez, and Barron, Circuit Judges.


This appeal requires us to decide whether a dispute between employees and their successor employer should be resolved in arbitration or in the courts. The parties agreed to arbitrate this dispute. The district court, however, refused to compel arbitration; it found that ERISA preempted arbitration of this dispute, and reasoned...

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