United States Ninth Circuit

In an employment dispute, denial of defendant's petition to compel arbitration is affirmed where the parties' arbitration agreement was procedurally and substantively unconscionable under California contract law, and thus unenforceable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/18/2005
• Published 05/18/2005

Judges

• PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:, Before: PREGERSON, THOMPSON, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Rex Darrell Berry, Livingston & Mattesich Law Corporation, Sacramento, CA, for defendant/appellant Circuit City Stores, Inc., Michael H. Crosby, San Diego, CA, for the plaintiff/appellee.