Winston & Strawn Seeks High Court Review of Arbitration Limits

Winston & Strawn wants the U.S. Supreme Court to upend a decades-old California arbitration standard. The law firm argues the state mandate wrongly moved a former partner’s discrimination lawsuit to court instead of a private arbitration process.

The California Supreme Court in 2000 created minimum due process standards for arbitration. The new petition opposing the standards is part of a string of efforts in recent years by the defense bar and employers to press the Supreme Court to bolster the arbitration process. The high court has ruled in recent years to give more power to the for-profit arbitration system that ...