Williams Weese Pepple & Ferguson News

By: Mairead Dolan & Rena Meisler When the Ninth Circuit decided O’Dell v. Aya Healthcare in April 2026, most commentators viewed it as a significant win for employers. The court rejected an attempt to use two adverse arbitration awards to invalidate hundreds of arbitration agreements, holding that non-mutual offensive collateral estoppel is incompatible with the […]