Dallas firm Hermes Law PC, litigation management platform ClaimDeck, and the lawyer who controls both entities lost their bid to shift a fired executive’s lawsuit into arbitration.
The suit includes allegations of sexual harassment, allowing the former employee to opt out of her promise to arbitrate by invoking the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said. Hermes Law, Dwayne Hermes, and Syzygy Legal Tech Inc.—which does business as ClaimDeck—were wrong that the EFAA didn’t apply because the suit failed to plausibly allege ...
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