Ex-Googler’s Anti-Conservative Bias Case Headed to Arbitration

The engineer who sued Google after he was fired for blasting the company with allegations of anti-conservative bias won’t get his day in court after all.

James Damore’s claims against the Alphabet Inc. unit will be heard behind closed doors in private arbitration instead of in a public courtroom under an agreement filed by lawyers on both sides in California state court in San Jose.

The re-routing of the case comes five months after a pro-employer ruling by the conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court that made it harder for workers to keep discrimination complaints from being shunted into arbitration.

Another former ...