From BNA Daily Labor Report:
“Justices Won’t Review California Ruling on Unconsionability of Wage Hearing Waivers
Posted June 09, 2014, 4:01 P.M. ET
The U.S. Supreme Court today let stand a California Supreme Court decision that a lower court may consider whether a waiver of any state administrative wage hearing makes an arbitration agreement unconscionable and thus unenforceable, denying an auto dealer’s petition to review the case ( Sonic-Calabasas A, Inc. v. Moreno, U.S., No. 13-856, cert. denied 6/9/14 ).
On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, which directed the California high court to reconsider the case, the state court 5-2 found in October 2013 that state courts “may continue to enforce unconscionability rules that do not ‘interfere with fundamental attributes of arbitration’ ” (57 Cal. 4th 1109, 2013 BL 287605 (2013); 205 DLR A-1, 10/22/13).”