Earlier this year, NT Lakis filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the Center for Workplace Compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Justices to review and reverse a questionable decision out of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals dealing with mandatory arbitration. Our brief in Sterling Jewelers, Inc. v. Jock, No. 19-1382, argued that the appeals court was wrong in finding that the parties had agreed to class arbitration despite clear Supreme Court precedent to the contrary.
Regrettably, the High Court this week announced that it will not review the case, meaning that it will be harder for employers to avoid class arbitration in cases where a mandatory arbitration agreement does not expressly include a class waiver, at least for those companies operating within the jurisdiction of the Second Circuit.
Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) can read more here.