Tonyja DUFFIELD, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
ROBERTSON STEPHENS & COMPANY, a partnership; Robertson Stephens & Company, a corporation, Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued and Submitted March 9, 1998.
Decided May 8, 1998.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Michael Rubin (argued), Jeffrey B. Demain, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Berzon & Rubin, San Francisco, California; Cliff Palefsky, McGuinn, Hillsman & Palefsky, San Francisco, California, for plaintiff-appellant.
Daniel H. Bookin, F. Curt Kirschner, Jr. (argued), David B. Newdorf, O'Melveny & Myers, San Francisco, California, for defendants-appellees.
C. Gregory Stewart, J. Ray Terry, Jr., Gwendolyn Young Reams, Vincent J. Blackwood, Robert J. Gregory (argued and on the brief), for amicus curiae Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC, in support of plaintiff-appellant.
David E. Feller, Berkeley, California, David T. Weckstein, San Diego, California, for amicus curiae The National Academy of Arbitrators, in support of plaintiff-appellant.
John M. True, III, Rudy, Exelrod, Zeiff & True, San Francisco, California, for amicus curiae National Employment Lawyers Association, in support of plaintiff-appellant.
Elaine R. Jones, NAACP Legal and Educational defense Fund, New York City; Judith L. Lichtman, Women's Legal Defense Fund, Washington, DC; Thomas J. Henderson, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, Washington, DC; Eva Jefferson Paterson, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco, California, for amicus curiae in support of plaintiff-appellant.
Paul D. Carrington, Duke University School of Law, Jean R. Sternlight, Florida State University College of Law, Richard C. Reuben, Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation, Katherine Van Wezel Stone, Cornell Law School, for amicus curiae Concerned Legal Scholars, in support of plaintiff-appellant.
William J. Emanuel, Michael L. Wolfram, John S. Battenfeld, Morgan, Lewis & Brockius, Los Angeles, CA, for amicus curiae The Employers Group, in support of defendants-appellees.
Samuel Estreicher, New York University School of Law, for amicus curiae California Employment Law Council, in support of defendants-appellees.
Robert E. Williams, Ann Elizabeth Reesman, Erin Quinn Gery, McGuiness & Williams, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae Equal Employment Advisory Counsel, in support of defendants-appellees.
Gary R. Siniscalco, Lisa K. McClelland, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, San Francisco, California, for amicus curiae Securities Industry Association, in support of defendants-appellees.
Before: CANBY and REINHARDT, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Court of International Trade Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:
This case presents the issue whether employers may require as a mandatory condition of employment in a certain profession — here, broker-dealer in the securities industry — that all employees waive their right to bring Title VII and other statutory and nonstatutory claims in court and instead agree in advance to submit all employment-related disputes to binding arbitration. We hold that, under the Civil Rights Act of 1991, employers...
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