Hello Fresh Can’t Halt TCPA Suit Pending First Circuit Appeal

A district court judge won’t grant what he already told Hello Fresh is a borderline frivolous motion to compel arbitration of claims that it violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Judge William G. Young isn’t going to halt proceedings pending Hello Fresh’s appeal to the First Circuit, either.

Young’s Tuesday decision opened with a bolded statement lamenting Hello Fresh’s effort to enforce an arbitration clause that wasn’t even in effect the only time named plaintiff Grace Murray used its meal-kit delivery service.

“A majority of the Supreme Court exalts arbitration above all other forms of dispute resolution,” the statement read ...