Injured Football Fans Face Arbitration Over Negligence Claims

A group of football fans who fell over a railing at Washington’s football stadium are facing arbitration over claims that team and stadium owners were negligent.

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday vacated a federal district court’s order denying arbitration and reversed the lower court’s ruling on the ticket purchaser’s “apparent authority” under agency law to bind the plaintiffs to an arbitration clause.

The court also remanded the case to resolve whether the purchaser’s online ticket buy “resulted in a contract with the Washington Football Team that included its terms and conditions and the arbitration ...