Business parties who seek the advantages of arbitration, including protection from class actions, must take care to comply with the arbitral forum’s requirements or risk losing those advantages. This is the upshot of the Eleventh Circuit’s recent decision in Merritt Island Woodwerx, LLC v. Space Coast Credit Union, 2025 WL 1450492 (11th Cir. May 21, 2025)(per curiam). …
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A Default in Proceeding with Arbitration Does Not Necessarily Authorize a Default Judgment in Federal Court
In Hernandez v. Acosta Tractors Inc., 2018 WL 3761126 (11th Cir. Aug. 8, 2018), the Eleventh Circuit held that a party’s default in proceeding with arbitration after requesting it did not necessarily warrant entry of default judgment against that party in federal court. Julio Hernandez sued his former employer, Acosta Tractors, and two of its…