Halliburton on Appeal Defeats Worker’s Age Bias Suit Revival

Halliburton Energy Services Inc. won reversal of a federal court ruling that allowed an employee to reopen a dismissed lawsuit to challenge his loss of age discrimination claims in arbitration.

The decision Monday by a divided US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit addressed a question of first impression for the court: whether Gary Waetzig’s voluntary dismissal of his suit without prejudice under federal procedural rules is a final judgment, order, or proceeding.

Because it isn’t any of those three things, the lower cour wrongly allowed him to reopen the suit he dropped in order to pursue his Age ...