WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday weighed an employer’s challenge to a California labor law that authorizes private attorneys to sue on behalf of thousands of workers, even if those workers had agreed to arbitrate their claims individually.
The closely watched case is the latest and perhaps most important test of whether companies can shield themselves from costly employment lawsuits through arbitration clauses that forbid group or class claims.
The court’s conservative justices said little during Wednesday’s argument in Viking River Cruises v. Moriana, while the three liberals spoke in defense of the California law.
