A home health care provider’s attempt to avoid arbitrating a proposed class action suit “smacked of forum-shopping,” a Pennsylvania judge has told the state Superior Court.

Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas Senior Judge Joseph Smyth issued an opinion Monday outlining his reasoning for rejecting Salman Corp.’s request to have a court, rather than an arbitrator, determine whether a wage-and-hour suit should proceed to class arbitration. The Montgomery County-based home health care services provider has appealed Smyth’s decision to the Superior Court.

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