SAN FRANCISCO — Class action attorneys handling cases in California are scrambling to figure out what the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest ruling on arbitration clauses means for their practices.

Today’s 5-4 decision in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion held that the Federal Arbitration Act trumps a California rule invalidating as “unconscionable” a class action waiver provision in a cellphone arbitration agreement.

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