An Uber driver cannot be forced to take his worker-misclassification lawsuit against the ride-hailing company to arbitration, an Orange County appeals court held Monday.

A unanimous Fourth District Court of Appeal panel held that Erik Adolph’s claim for civil penalties under California’s Private Attorneys General Act must be considered in court, even though he agreed to resolve workplace disputes in arbitration as part of a condition of driving for UberEATS.

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