Second Court of Appeals

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Lon Smith & Assocs., Inc. v. Key, No. 02-25-00254-CV (Apr. 2, 2026) (Wallach, J., joined by Bassel and Walker, JJ.).

Held: In the first appeal in this case, this court affirmed in part the trial court’s order certifying a class. In the second appeal, this court held that Appellants had waived arbitration with Appellees. In this appeal, Appellants seek to compel arbitration with the remaining class members. However, the arbitration clauses on which they rely do not establish a right to class arbitration. To the extent that Appellants sought bilateral arbitration with the remaining class members, they failed to authenticate the documents on which they relied to prove the existence of arbitration agreements and failed to establish that the documents fell within a hearsay exception.