An employee alleges sexual harassment so severe that it forces her to quit her job. Her employer pushes for arbitration. A federal district judge determines that he has little choice but to side with the company.

This is the landscape painted by the U.S. Supreme Court’s split decision in Epic Systems v. Lewis, and a burgeoning collection of court decisions favoring arbitration agreements. Labor and employment reporter Erin Mulvaney and data editor Ben Hancock, in collaboration with San Francisco-based legal research company Casetext, analyze the data on 93 decisions from U.S. courts of appeal and federal district courts that cited Epic between the time it was decided in May 2018 and the end of that year. Check out their story for more.

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