In a case testing the bounds of employer arbitration contracts and if “acknowledging” an agreement is the same as “assenting” to one, the state Supreme Court ruled 5-1 that a former Pfizer employee’s discrimination claims must be resolved through arbitration and not the courts.

In upholding the trial court, the majority reversed the Appellate Division and determined that plaintiff Amy Skuse’s employment discrimination claim was indisputably included in the Pfizer arbitration agreement’s broad language.