AmEx Beats White Workers’ Bid to Avoid Arbitrating Bias Claims

American Express Co. can enforce agreements requiring White workers to arbitrate allegations that the company pushed them out so it could hire more Black staff after the 2020 murder of George Floyd, a federal appeals court said.

The workers filed a race discrimination suit against the credit card company on behalf of a would-be class. But they’re all subject to arbitration agreements, and those agreements aren’t unconscionable, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said Monday in an unpublished opinion.

• New York law governs the agreements because their “Individual Claims Only” provisions don’t waive public injunctive ...