Lamps Plus Inc V Varela

In 2016 a hacker tricked an employee of petitioner lamps plus inc into disclosing tax information of about 1300 company employees. Main document certificate of word count proof of service.

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Lamps plus inc v varela.

This case arose from a lawsuit filed by frank varela varela against his employer lamps plus inc lamps plus relating to the disclosure of tax information of 1300 lamps plus employees.
Distributed for conference of 4132018.
Certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit.

Argued october 29 2018decided april 24 2019.
In 2016 a hacker tricked an employee of petitioner lamps plus inc into disclosing tax information of about 1300 company employees.
Reversed and remanded 5 4 in an opinion by chief justice roberts on april 24 2019.

Lamps plus and frank varela varela executed an arbitration agreement which contained a clause waiving varelas right to sue his employer or institute any other civil action or proceeding concerning his employment at lamps plus.
By a vote of 5 4 the us.
Under the federal arbitration act an ambiguous agreement cannot provide the necessary contractual basis for concluding that the parties agreed to submit to class arbitration.

The majority relied on the federal arbitration act and rejected the common law rule that ambiguous contracts are construed against their drafter.
Varela sought damages in the united states district court for himself and all persons similarly situated.
Frank varela filed a class action complaint against his employer lamps plus under theories including negligence invasion of privacy and breach of contract after the company released employee personal identifying information in response to a phishing scam.

When varela sued as a putative class representative of his fellow lamps plus employees lamps plus moved to compel arbitration of varelas individual claims and to dismiss the lawsuit.
Supreme court held in lamps plus inc v varela that an ambiguous agreement cannot provide the necessary contractual basis for concluding that the parties agreed to submit to class arbitration.
Reply of petitioners lamps plus inc et al.

Varela was a case argued before the supreme court of the united states on october 29 2018 during the courts 2018 2019 termthe court reversed and remanded the united states court of appeals for the 9th circuitwriting for the majority chief justice john g.
Lamps plus had agreed with its employee frank varela to arbitrate any and all claims he might have including claims arising from a data breach.
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Distributed for conference of.
Brief of respondent frank varela in opposition filed.
Distributed main document certificate of word count proof of service.

Certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit.
Argued october 29 2018decided april 24 2019.
Roberts said courts may not infer from an ambiguous agreement that parties have consented to arbitrate on a.

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