CenturyLink, Inc. is an American telecommunications company, headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, that provides communications and data services to residential, business, governmental, and wholesale customers in 37 states. A member of the S&P 500 index and the Fortune 500, the company operates as a local exchange carrier and Internet access provider in U.S. markets and is the third-largest telecommunications company in the United States in terms of lines served, behind AT&T and Verizon.
Court denied plaintiff’s motion to compel arbitration of defendant’s counterclaims. Court held that, by pursuing substantial litigation of claims that were subject to arbitration,