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California Appellate Decision Clarifies Standard for Injunctive Relief Carve-Outs Within California Arbitration Agreements

By Robert B. Milligan on Posted in Practice & Procedure, Restrictive Covenants, Trade Secrets

By Robert Milligan and Grace Chuchla Arbitration agreements with carve-outs for provisional remedies are again the topic du jour, particularly in California courts which apply a stringent unconscionability analysis to employee arbitration agreements. As we previously discussed on this blog, in October 2012, a federal district court for the Eastern District of California upheld an… Continue Reading

California Federal Court Finds Arbitration Agreement’s Exclusion of Injunctive Relief for Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition Claims Is Not Unconscionable

By Daniel Joshua Salinas on Posted in Trade Secrets, Unfair Competition

By Joshua Salinas and Grace Chuchla The fight over an employer’s attempt to enforce arbitration agreements in the face of wage and hour class action claims is a common one in the world of labor and employment law. In fact, this is the very question that a federal district court for the Eastern District of… Continue Reading