Following California law on mandatory arbitration of employment claims is a little like watching a tennis match; rulings keep going back and forth between employers and employees. The latest in the ongoing volley, Franco v. Arakelian Enterprises, Inc., is clearly a...

Using what a judge described as a "novel and unprecedented" approach, an employee in Southern California invoked a relatively obscure law created to redress race violence to recover almost $600,000 in damages and fees for sex harassment.  The case of Ventura v. ABM...