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Aerotek6/11/2023 The court of appeals affirmed, rejecting Aerotek's argument that it had conclusively established the validity of the MAAs. The trial court denied the motion to compel arbitration. Plaintiffs opposed the motion, arguing that they had completed the online hiring application but denying that they had ever seen or signed a mutual arbitration agreement (MAA) within the application. Aerotek moved to compel arbitration based on an online-only hiring application that each employee had completed. After all four were terminated, they sued Aerotek and others for racial discrimination and retaliation. Plaintiffs, four individuals, were hired by Aerotek to work as contractors on a construction project. The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals affirming the decision of the trial court denying Aerotek, Inc.'s motion to compel arbitration, holding that an alleged signatory's simple denial that he signed the record was insufficient to prevent attribution of an electronic signature to him.
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