SCOTUS Arbitration Clause Decision (NYT)

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Just a little something to piss off ESF those who hate arbitration clauses. Looks like it was reversed and remanded per SCOTUSblog. 


www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/us/politics/supreme-court-class-arbitrations.html


WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that workers at a California business could not band together to seek compensation for what they said was their employer’s failure to protect their data.

The vote was 5 to 4, with the court’s conservative members in the majority.

Wednesday’s decision, Lamps Plus v. Varela, No. 17-988, started in 2016, when a hacker posing as a company official persuaded an employee of Lamps Plus, which sells lighting fixtures, to disclose the tax filings of about 1,300 workers. The hacker used the information to file a fraudulent tax return in the name of Frank Varela, a Lamps Plus employee.