A Spanish-speaking worker who signed an employment agreement written in English cannot later escape a mandatory arbitration clause in the agreement on the grounds that he did not understand it, a divided panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
In Morales v. Sun Constructors Inc. , U.S. Circuit Judge Michael A. Chagares found that under the “objective theory of contract formation,” the courts cannot make exceptions for those who willingly sign a contract without understanding it — even in the case of a language barrier.
