In a decision with major implications for employment discrimination defendants, the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled yesterday that Lisa Parisi, a former managing director at Goldman Sachs, who is one of three named plaintiffs suing the investment bank for gender discrimination, must arbitrate her claims as required by a clause in her employment contract.
The circuit reversed a November 2011 decision by Southern District Judge Leonard Sand (See Profile), who ruled that forcing Parisi into an individual arbitration would preclude her from vindicating her right to bring a substantive "pattern-or-practice" claim under Title VII.
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