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Arbitration: Forever 21 - A Loaded Game of Black Jack.

Arbitration: Forever 21 – A Loaded Game of Black Jack.

Arbitration Cards Pulled From a Stacked Deck

The California Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in a case likely to be the ruin of a long standing exception to compelled arbitration:  that discrimination and harassment complaints may not be excluded the right of jury trial.

We could see this coming.   The U.S. Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court have for years been in tension over…

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PAGA Arbitration -- More Than One Way to "Iskanian" a Cat.

PAGA Arbitration — More Than One Way to “Iskanian” a Cat.

  MORE THAN ONE WAY TO “ISKANIAN” A CAT

PAGA ARBITRATION:  JUST WHO OWNS THIS CASE?

The big issue pending in California employment law is whether a particular type of collective lawsuit by many workers must be arbitrated.  Employees should care about this issue because compelling arbitration will eviscerate their ability to bring actions as a group for sums they would not individually find cost…

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