Arbitration and Dispute Resolution

Memo
24-090
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

The High Court’s pro-arbitration ruling resolves a split among the federal appeals courts as to whether a trial court must put a lawsuit on hold rather than dismiss it when arbitration has been ordered.


Memo
24-082
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

A bill that would outlaw pre-dispute arbitration of age discrimination claims has cleared a key U.S. Senate Committee on a bipartisan vote, paving the way for possible enactment later this year.


Memo
24-070
Monday, April 22, 2024

The ruling by the High Court further clarifies the scope of the transportation worker exemption contained in the Federal Arbitration Act.


Memo
24-014
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Enforcement of a 2019 California law (AB 51) that bans mandatory employment arbitration agreements has been permanently enjoined pursuant to a federal court order entered on January 2, 2024.


Memo
23-055
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

The “Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (EFAA)” was enacted a year ago by Congress to prohibit employers from enforcing pre-dispute agreements to arbitrate sexual harassment claims. The first rulings interpreting th


Memo
23-049
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a 2019 law enacted by the state of California that makes it a criminal offense for an employer to require an employee or a job applicant to consent to arbitration is preempted by the FAA.


Memo
22-201
Monday, October 24, 2022

A bipartisan bill that would bar the use of pre-dispute nondisclosure agreements involving sexual assault or harassment claims has been approved by the U.S. Senate and could become law this year.


Memo
22-125
Tuesday, July 5, 2022

In its latest pro-arbitration ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Federal Arbitration Act preempts an interpretation of California’s unique Private Attorneys General Act that prevents individual arbitration of PAGA claims.


Memo
22-113
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

According to two new independent survey studies published by the EEOC, one involving mediation program participants and the other involving EEOC mediators, the agency’s switch to virtual mediation is in many cases now viewed by both as preferable to


Memo
22-110
Tuesday, June 7, 2022

The High Court’s ruling earlier this week in the case of Southwest Airlines v. Saxon provides guidance on the scope of the Federal Arbitration Act’s transportation worker exemption, although not in the way that either party would have preferred.


Memo
22-099
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

The High Court’s ruling this week increases the incentive for an employer to seek to compel arbitration sooner rather than later when a lawsuit gets filed.


Memo
22-061
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

A bill that would bar the use of pre-dispute arbitration agreements in the employment context recently passed the House of Representative on a party-line vote. The bill is unlikely to go anywhere in the U.S. Senate.


Memo
22-029
Monday, February 14, 2022

As we predicted, Congress has approved and sent to President Biden for his signature an amendment to the Federal Arbitration Act that allows a victim of alleged sexual harassment or sexual assault to opt out of a predispute arbitration agreement or j


Memo
21-224
Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Bills that would ban or severely limit pre-dispute arbitration agreements to resolve workplace discrimination claims are getting attention in Congress, and one of them has a fair chance of being enacted.


Memo
21-039
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Data recently obtained by CWC from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts show that employment-related lawsuits filed in federal court declined to a 20-year low in Fiscal Year 2020, including declines in every subcategory tracked.


Memo
20-206
Friday, October 16, 2020

The U.S. Supreme Court decided this week not to review a problematic arbitration ruling out of the Second Circuit in which the appeals court allowed class arbitration to proceed despite strong indicators that the underlying arbitration agreement cont


Memo
20-174
Friday, September 4, 2020

Although the Supreme Court has made it clear that the Federal Arbitration Act establishes a public policy favoring arbitration of disputes, there is a provision in the FAA that exempts its application to workers “engaged in foreign or interstate comm


Memo
20-163
Friday, August 21, 2020

Sometimes when ruling on a motion to compel arbitration, a court can be faced with questions of whether the parties actually agreed to arbitrate the dispute. In this case, the influential appeals court has set out a clear rule that when this happens,


Briefs
20-145
Friday, July 24, 2020

Our brief submitted in support of the High Court taking up this case argues that the appeals court misinterpreted both the Federal Arbitration Act and Supreme Court precedent in ruling that an arbitrator could impose class arbitration even though the


Memo
20-089
Friday, May 8, 2020

The so-called Franken amendment, which has been on the books for a decade, bars certain Department of Defense contractors from requiring employees to arbitrate Title VII claims. In one of the few federal appeals court decisions we’ve seen that interp


Memo
20-009
Friday, January 10, 2020

In the wake of numerous rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court over the last two decades upholding the validity of employment arbitration as an alternative to court litigation, the EEOC has finally abandoned its 1997 policy statement to the contrary.


Memo
20-006
Friday, January 10, 2020

California enacted a number of new employment laws during its 2019 legislative session, including a law that bans mandatory employment arbitration and another that requires employers to classify many independent contractors as employees. Legal challe


Memo
19-201
Friday, October 4, 2019

The Democrat majority in the U.S. House of Representatives has approved another bill on its workplace law overhaul agenda, in this case banning pre-dispute arbitration agreements covering employment and civil rights claims. As is the case with other


Memo
19-190
Friday, September 20, 2019

The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that an employer did not violate federal labor law even after it revised its arbitration policy in response to a wage and hour lawsuit. In so ruling, the agency relied on a recent Supreme Court decision fi


Memo
19-185
Friday, September 13, 2019

It is settled law that employment arbitration agreements are a viable legal alternative to court litigation. Nevertheless, these agreements are a form of contract, and are subject to challenges that they violate contract law, as the court found here.


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