Friday, October 27, 2017

Baxter v. Genworth North America (Cal. Ct. App. - Oct. 26, 2017)

The Ninth Circuit published . . . nothing today.  The California Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal published . . . nothing as well.

Gotta love those Fridays.

So I'll reach back to yesterday with a brief reminder that pigs get fat whereas hogs get slaughtered.

Which, in the arbitration context, translates into the principle that arbitration clauses are great when you can essentially compel your employees into giving up their rights to sue you, but if you get too greedy, and make the arbitration clause even more onerous than normal, you get holdings like this one, and the entire arbitration provision gets invalidated.  Welcome to court.

So be a pig, not a hog.