Mealey's (October 7, 2021, 8:54 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A divided Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Sept. 15 vacated the preliminary injunction issued by a trial court in a case challenging a California law addressing mandatory arbitration agreements after reversing the conclusion that the law’s regulation of pre-employment behavior is preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) but ruling that the civil and criminal sanctions that come with such a violation are preempted....