Atlanta-based 24-hour restaurant chain Waffle House Inc. has won a challenge to a Florida federal judge’s denial of a motion to compel arbitration in a class action employment lawsuit.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled in favor of Waffle House with an opinion released Monday. Judge Stanley Marcus wrote for a panel that included Judge Frank Hull and Judge Raymond C. Clevenger III of the Federal Circuit, sitting by designation.