U.S. High Court Declines To Weigh In On PAGA Claims And Arbitration Agreements

Mealey's (October 17, 2017, 1:19 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 16 denied a petition for writ of certiorari filed by a department store seeking to challenge the enforcement of Iskanian v. CLS Transportation Los Angeles, LLC, 327 P.3d 129 (Cal. 2014), and Sakkab v. Luxottica Retail N. Am., Inc., 803 F.3d 425 (9th Cir. 2015), in which has been determined that pre-dispute agreements to arbitrate Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) claims on an individual basis are unenforceable (Bloomingdale’s, Inc. v. Bernadette Tanguilig, No. 16-1503, U.S. Sup.)....

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