Judge Sandra Segal Ikuta, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. (Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM)
California’s law banning mandatory employee arbitration is preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act, according to an appeals court decision Wednesday.
A majority opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit called California’s AB 51 “antithetical” to the FAA’s “liberal federal policy favoring arbitration agreements.”
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