Case: Wage & Hour/Arbitration (C.D. Cal.)

A California federal district court partially denied Better Mortgage Corporation’s motion to compel arbitration in a Fair Labor Standards Act and California labor law case brought by a mortgage underwriter and opt-in plaintiffs, upholding a prior judge’s invalidation of arbitration agreements for existing employees under the “law of the case” doctrine, while granting the motion for employees hired after January 2021, finding their arbitration agreements valid but severing unconscionable cost-sharing and attorney’s fees provisions.

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