Forcepoint Can’t Merge New Worker Suit With One Being Arbitrated

Forcepoint LLC lost its bid to back out of ongoing arbitration of an employee’s age bias claim over his firing and consolidate that action with his new lawsuit challenging its failure to rehire him.

The US District Court for the Western District of Texas said it was the software company that sought to arbitrate the firing claim in the first place. A party can’t “reverse course” like that and alter its position regarding the proper forum for legal proceedings just because its “interests have changed,” the court said.

The arbitration of Mark Goldstein’s Age Discrimination in Employment Act claim over ...