Court rejects NLRB rule on arbitration and class action

By Sean Higgins

Published January 10, 2014 5:00am ET

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In a little-noticed opinion last month, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a National Labor Relations Board ruling that federal labor law trumps arbitration law. In other words, the court ruled that the NLRB’s attempt to broaden the reach of the NLRA to circumvent recent Supreme Court decisions was unconstitutional.