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Can a Sexual Harassment Claim Keep the Whole Lawsuit Out of Arbitration? Yes.

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our employee signed an agreement to arbitrate all employment disputes. But a single sexual harassment claim can bring an entire lawsuit, and every other claim with it, into court anyway.

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R: The Second Circuit joined the Sixth and Ninth Circuits in holding that properly invoking the federal law allowing sexual harassment disputes to proceed in court keeps the entire lawsuit out of compelled arbitration, including non-harassment claims. Employers need to

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