Employer Cannot Compel Employee To Arbitrate Individual Aspects Of PAGA Claim While Maintaining Representative Claim In Court. We blogged about Hernandez v. Ross, E064026 (4/2 1/3/17) on December 8, 2016. Hernandez is one more California case holding that a court cannot split a representative PAGA claim into arbitrable and non arbitrable parts. We can now report […]
Just Because There Is An Arbitration Provision, Don’t Take The Existence Of An Arbitration Agreement For Granted . . . The mere existence of a contractual provision requiring arbitration does not mean that the parties have established the existence of an agreement to arbitrate the claims between the parties. At a minimum, a checklist […]
Material Amendment To A Footnote? On September 11, 2016, we posted about the Uber Drivers cases, Mohamed v. Uber Technologies, Inc., et al., and Gillette v. Uber Technologies, Inc., Nos. 15-16178 and 15-16181 (9th Cir. 9/7/16). The 9th Circuit opinion penned by Judge Clifton held that the issue of arbitrability was effectively delegated […]
Ordinarily, Denial Of A Motion To Compel Arbitration Is Appealable – But Not Here, And The Court Explains Why . . . Hayward Renaissance Walk Corporation v. Olson Urban Housing, LLC, A148372 (2/1 12/20/16) (Margulies, Humes, Dondero) (unpublished) does something satisfying that we like cases to do: it makes sense and imposes order on […]
Two Separate Agreements, Rather Than One Fully Integrated Agreement, Governed The Relationship Between The Parties. Pacific Interventionalists, Inc. v. Pedes Orange County, Inc., G052815 (4/3 12/116/16) (O’Leary, Fybel, Ikola) (unpublished) delves into the application of the parol evidence rule to an agreement containing a promise to arbitrate. In order to determine if parties intend […]
The Key: Close Reading Of Provision Providing For Arbitration If Reference Became “Legally Unavailable.” The short but interesting opinion in Freeman v. Froehlich Signature Homes, Inc., F073374 (5th Dist. 12/15/16) (Levy, Gomes, Kane) (unpublished), merits close reading, because it reads like a finely-worded exam question. In a construction defect lawsuit, the trial court […]
Limitations On Discovery Did Not Make Arbitration Unconscionable, Because The Limitations Applied Equally. A vintage downtown beauty parlor, part of the Ackley Heritage Center that also includes an old-time soda fountain as well as prairie houses and farm buildings on the outskirts of town in Ackley, Iowa. 2016. Carol M. Highsmith, photographer. Library of […]
How Liberal And Conservative Justices On The US Supreme Court Have Parted Ways Over Arbitration Cases. My article entitled, "The Politics of Arbitration", appears in California Litigation, The Journal of the Litigation Section, State Bar of California, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2016. As my article explains, arbitration has become one more "hot button issue" […]
In The Fifth Circuit, D.R. Horton Inc. v. NLRB, 737 F.3d 344, Is Dispositive. In an unpublished opinion, Citigroup Technology, et al. v. NLRB, 15-60856 (5th Cir. 12/8/16) (per curiam), the Fifth Circuit grants Citigroup’s Petition for Review, and reverses the NLRB’s decision adverse to Citigroup, which seeks to enforce arbitration of an employee’s […]