Hadnot v. Bay, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that arbitration agreement’s “ban on punitive and exemplary damages” was unenforceable because “Title VII provides for statutory punitive damages”
• holding unenforceable a portion of an arbitration clause that eliminated the availability of punitive damages under Title VII
• rejecting argument that bar on punitive damages in arbitration clause is integral to overall employment agreement and accordingly cannot be severed
• allowing an unlawful provision that restricted the ability of the arbitrator to award exemplary and punitive damages to be severed from the arbitration agreement
• severing unenforceable restriction on punitive damages and ordering parties to proceed to arbitration
• severing unenforceable provision in arbitration clause barring any award of punitive damages and upholding remainder of arbitration clause that authorized arbitration of any and all disputes arising out of employment relationship

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