Marriott, Sheraton Effort to Force Worker to Arbitrate Fails

A former engineering director at the Sheraton New Orleans doesn’t have to face a lawsuit seeking to compel him to arbitrate his potential claims, the Fifth Circuit ruled.

Marriott International and Sheraton Hotels lack standing to preemptively force Deon Danna to assert any claims he might have against them in arbitration rather than in court, Judge Gregg J. Costa said in a May 6 unpublished opinion.

Danna signed an arbitration pact when he was hired by Sheraton in 2013, prior to Marriott’s acquisition of the chain. But the Federal Arbitration Act doesn’t authorize federal courts to assume jurisdiction of a ...