Mealey's (July 10, 2018, 11:40 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals defied the U.S. Supreme Court’s clear holding when it ruled that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) doesn’t preempt state law and the lack of reference to class arbitration in an employment agreement is not “silence” as defined by Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds Int’l Corp., 559 U.S. 662, 684 (2010), an employer argues in a petitioner brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court on July 9 (Lamps Plus, Inc., et al. v. Frank Varela, No. 17-988, U.S. Sup.)....