Now that Justice Gorsuch is confirmed and can take the open seat on the Supreme Court, maybe SCOTUS can move forward on the cases about whether employers can make employees waive their right to class actions in an arbitration agreement. (Btw, here’s a nice SCOTUSblog piece on Gorsuch’s arbitration decisions.) In the meantime, California’s
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Ninth Circuit Revives California Law That Allows Plaintiffs Seeking Injunctive Relief To Avoid Arbitration
By Liz Kramer on
More than one year ago, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit determined that California case law, which precluded arbitration of claims asking for public injunctive relief, was preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act. Upon rehearing the case en banc, the Court backpedaled. Kilgore v. KeyBank Nat’l Assoc., __ F.3d __,…