Luxottica’s Arbitration Bid in Wage Case Fails at Ninth Cir. (1)

Luxottica of America Inc. must litigate in court a worker’s proposed class action alleging violations of California wage-and-hour law, a federal appeals court ruled.

The Luxottica Group SpA subsidiary that runs LensCrafters and other eyewear retailers failed to convince the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to dismiss eyewear consultant Passion Gabourel’s class claims and send her individual claims to arbitration.

A three-judge Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s decision that Gabourel had opted out of the company’s arbitration program.

The four-page unpublished decision, issued just 13 days after it heard oral argument in ...