The Sixth Circuit just reminded us all that a forum selection provision identifying courts where any lawsuit may be filed doesn’t necessarily negate an arbitration provision.

In White v. ACell, Inc., 2019 WL 2929933 (6th Cir. July 8, 2019), an employee had entered into two separate agreements related to his employment.  One called for

In a victory for advocates who worry that the odds are impossibly stacked against consumers in some arbitral fora, the Seventh Circuit found that a class of borrowers did not have to proceed with arbitration conducted by the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (“Tribe”) in South Dakota “because the arbitral mechanism specified in the agreement is