Worker Gets New Try to Skip Arbitrating Sex Harassment Case (2)

A mortgage underwriter gets another chance to rely on a recent federal law barring forced arbitration of sexual harassment claims to keep her bias lawsuit in court, a split federal appeals panel said Friday.

The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act “applies to claims that accrue after its date of enactment and to disputes, understood as controversies between the parties, that arise after that date,” the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said, addressing a matter of first impression.

The lower court must review whether Kassandra Memmer’s dispute with United Wholesale Mortgage LLC ...