IN RE: IBM ARBITRATION AGREEMENT LITIGATION

Background

The judgment states that the plaintiffs challenged provisions in IBM arbitration agreements. The identified challenges included claims by the Post-Arbitration Plaintiffs and challenges by Flannery and Corbett to the Confidentiality Provision and the Timeliness Provision.

Rulings

The court granted IBM’s motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ complaints. It declined to exercise jurisdiction over the Post-Arbitration Plaintiffs’ claims. It dismissed Flannery and Corbett’s challenges to the Confidentiality Provision as unripe, meaning the court determined that those challenges were not ready for judicial decision.

The court granted IBM’s motion to dismiss Flannery’s and Corbett’s challenges to the Timeliness Provision for failure to state a claim. The judgment says the court declined to grant leave to amend those claims because the defects were substantive and any amendment would therefore be futile.

The plaintiffs’ motion for leave to amend was denied because the proposed amended complaint would not survive a motion to dismiss. The plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment was denied as moot, meaning the court did not decide it because the other rulings made it unnecessary to reach.

Disposition

Judge Jesse Furman’s judgment granted IBM’s motion to dismiss, denied the plaintiffs’ motions for leave to amend, and denied the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment as moot.