May 12, 2025
A former retail employee must arbitrate her lawsuit claiming her male supervisor belittled her because she's a woman, the Sixth Circuit ruled Monday, saying the worker's admission that an agreement applied trumps the trial court's invocation of a federal law keeping sex harassment cases out of arbitration.
May 01, 2025
The Sixth Circuit appeared concerned Thursday by a trial court's decision to invoke the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Act in a workplace dispute even though the employee failed to cite it, with the court's chief judge calling the move "astonishing."
April 30, 2025
The Sixth Circuit will tackle tricky questions about the reach of a federal law curbing employers' use of mandatory arbitration provisions for workers' sexual harassment and assault claims, while U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission attorneys will venture to three appellate courts to support cases and amicus briefs they've filed. Here, Law360 looks at six argument sessions discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on this month.