Secrease v. The Western & Southern Life Ins. Co.

Dist. Ct. did not err in dismissing plaintiff’s Title VII action against defendant-employer alleging discrimination and retaliation as sanction arising out of plaintiff’s attempt to enforce phony arbitration agreement. Record showed that plaintiff manufactured employment agreement by sandwiching phony arbitration agreement between actual first and last pages of real employment agreement. Moreover, Dist. Ct. could properly believe that plaintiff had deliberately submitted false employment agreement in effort to compel defendant to arbitrate instant claims, and that plaintiff had lied to Dist. Ct. about how said document had been generated. Ct. rejected plaintiff’s argument that dismissal was too harsh of sanction.