California Court of Appeals Upholds Trial Court Decision Compelling Arbitration and Dismissal of FEHA Claim

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On 1/9/25, in Sanchez v. Wonderful Pistachios & Almonds, the California Court of Appeals refused to find that the trial court had erred in compelling arbitration, after the assigned arbitrator found that Plaintiff's claims were time-barred and dismissed her late-added claim for harassment under the California Fair Employment & Housing Act (FEHA).  The Court found that the petition to vacate the arbitrator's award was properly denied and noted that courts cannot typically review arbitration awards for errors of facts or law, though it found that there was no error by the arbitrator in finding the workers' new FEHA claims were time-barred. The Court did note that her FEHA claim was voluntarily submitted to arbitration, since the trial court had not ordered the arbitration of the FEHA claim:

https://www4.courts.ca.gov/opinions/nonpub/F086635.PDF 

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