SAN FRANCISCO The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals shot down efforts by would-be helicopter pilots to escape arbitration, ruling that the U.S. Supreme Court’s AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion ruling closed off California’s exception for injunctive relief.
Senior Judge Stephen Trott, who wrote the opinion, sounded reluctant to dismantle a piece of the state’s unfair competition law, which allows consumers to seek injunctive relief in court even if they failed to opt out of a mandatory arbitration clause.
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