Title 7 — Judiciary and Civil Procedure

This Chapter may be cited as the “Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2022.”

I Liheslaturan Guåhan finds that on March 3, 2022, President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. enacted U.S. Public Law No. 117-90, the “Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021,” into law. Public Law No. 117-90 prohibits the enforcement of mandatory,…

For the purposes of this Chapter: (a) The term predispute arbitration agreement means any agreement to arbitrate a dispute that had not yet arisen at the time of the making of the agreement. (b) The term predispute joint-action waiver means an agreement, whether or not part of a …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, at the election of the person alleging conduct constituting a sexual assault dispute or sexual harassment dispute, or the named representative of a class or in a collective action alleging such conduct, no predispute arbitration agreeme…

Determination of Applicability. An issue as to whether this Chapter applies with respect to a dispute shall be determined under federal law. The applicability of this Chapter to an agreement to arbitrate and the validity and enforceability of an agreement to which this Chapter ap…