The Ponkey LuLaRoe class-action, the second filed in California, has been dismissed by way of arbitration.
The case isn’t over simply but although.
We final reported on the Ponkey LuLaRoe class-action in July 2021. On the time all Plaintiffs within the first class-action had simply settled with LuLaRoe.
LuLaRoe had filed a movement to compel arbitration within the Ponkey class-action, which was but to be determined.
In August 2022 the court docket ordered Plaintiff Jessica Ponkey and LuLaRoe into arbitration.
The end result of arbitration was a Closing Arbitration Award, issued in April 2022.
Throughout arbitration proceedings, LuLaRoe moved for judgment on the premise Defendant Ponkey’s
are barred by a one-year statute of limitations provision within the relevant contract between the events.
The Closing Arbitration Award granted LuLaRoe’s movement, successfully ending arbitration and the case.
In a Could twenty seventh discover informing the court docket of the Closing Arbitration Award, Plaintiff Ponkey steered she meant to file an enchantment.
Later that very same day Ponkey knowledgeable the court docket she had certainly filed an enchantment within the Ninth Circuit.
LuLaRoe in the meantime moved to verify the Closing Arbitration Award on June eighth. Ponkey filed a non-opposition discover to the affirmation request on June tenth.
The court docket granted LuLaRoe’s movement on June twenty second. This lifts the keep on the case, imposed when arbitration proceedings have been ordered.
Because it stands, whether or not there’s something left to litigate hinges on Plaintiff Ponkey’s enchantment.
If granted, the Closing Arbitration Award might be overturned, punting proceedings again to the District Courtroom.
If the award is upheld, Ponkey is again at sq. one and the case is over.
I’ll proceed to observe the docket for updates concerning Plaintiff Ponkey’s enchantment.