Trump Campaign Loses on Scope of Arbitration Clause

The Trump campaign's motion to compel arbitration of a former staffer's harassment suit was denied by a New York judge,  the ABA Journal reports.

The court found the arbitration clause of the staffer's nondisclosure agreement confines arbitration to any dispute "arising under or relating to this agreement,” but “does not require arbitration for any ‘dispute between the parties’ or even ‘any dispute arising out of plaintiff’s employment.”

The court wrote “The arbitration clause could have been written to require any disputes arising out of plaintiff’s employment to go to arbitration or that any claims brought by plaintiff against defendant must be sent to arbitration. But it did not.”