Sweetgreen Workers Get Bias Allegations Sent Back to State Court

Sweetgreen Inc. workers can pursue bias claims in state court after a judge blocked the salad chain from using a law banning forced arbitration of sexual harassment allegations to keep the case in a federal forum.

The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act is “a mere defense to a defense here” and not grounds for removing the case from state court, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said. And some parties on both sides are based in New York, so there’s no diversity jurisdiction, the Wednesday opinion said, remanding the ...