SAN FRANCISCO — A female partner suing her Silicon Valley venture capital firm over sex discrimination may be able to keep her suit out of arbitration.

In a tentative ruling on Monday, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn said that Ellen Pao and her firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, did not enter into an agreement to arbitrate employment disputes.

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