One Year Ago Today (November 6, 2023)…A judge denied a motion by a woman to remove what remains of her suit, alleging she was forced to strip to her underwear and hug another undressed co-worker as part of a team-building activity while working at a Santa Clarita Panda Express, out of arbitration and back to court.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elaine Lu ruled against plaintiff Jennifer Spargifiore after hearing arguments on Friday and then taking the case under submission.
Spargifiore’s lawyers maintained the remaining defendant in the case, self-improvement consulting company Alive Seminars and Coaching Academy, had nothing to do with the terms of employment agreements she signed in 2016 and 2018 in which she said she would arbitrate disputes. Those agreements had prompted Lu to send Spargifiore’s entire case into arbitration in July 2021…