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n arbitration agreement usually decides where an employment dispute will be heard. In this case, evidence uncovered during arbitration opened the door to court instead.
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DR: A former executive began arbitrating national-origin and domestic-violence-victim claims. After withdrawing over allegedly late arbitration fees, she filed in court and relied on evidence obtained during and after arbitration to support a sex-based hostile-environment claim. The Ninth Circuit held that the Ending Forced Arbitration