Despite the Supreme Court’s several pronouncements, most recently in Circuit City v. Adams (Circuit City I),[1]� concerning the strong federal policy favoring the arbitration of employment disputes – a policy that applies regardless of whether they are obtained as a condition of employment or cover discrimination and other statutory causes of action as well as contractual claims – the enforceability of such agreements continues to be contested in the Ninth Circuit with some success.
The new battle front appears to be �2 of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), which permits challenges to such agreements “upon such grounds that exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.”[2]�
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