March 12, 2024
The Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a worker who handled Adidas merchandise in a warehouse is exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act because his work was part of an uninterrupted stream of interstate commerce, but it found that California state arbitration law still applies to his wage claims.
December 01, 2023
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for oral arguments at the Ninth Circuit in a proposed racial discrimination class action against Uber. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
August 10, 2023
The California Supreme Court's recent holding that workers have standing to litigate representative actions even if the individual claims at their core are sent to arbitration is setting federal courts up to decide whether they'll go along with that approach.