United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2019-05-17
42usc1981: author: Flash2 · QA: FIX (Fable, neov2/cases/TRIAGE-Flash.md)
Case and law context
Role: background; posture: civil; employee's Section 1981 suit alleging racial harassment, discrimination and retaliation; order compelling arbitration under the employment contract's arbitration clause affirmed (9th Cir.); the only question decided is whether Section 1981 claims are arbitrable; result: not-decided; claim:
Uncertainty
other: result is not-decided because no Section 1981 claim or element was adjudicated; the plaintiff lost the appeal (arbitration compelled)
Element remedies: other: the law file declares no element for forum / arbitrability; remedies is only the nearest hook
Misfit
None recorded
B · Case × element grid
Top-level elements follow claim order in panels of up to six elements. Case rows repeat across panels. Every recorded block retains its holding and basis; multiple blocks are not merged into a case-level verdict. ✓ satisfied · ✗ not satisfied · ○ not reached · · not addressed. Muted blocks are not counted. Sub-element evidence remains on case and element pages.
Elements 1–6 of 15
| Case | Persons protected by equal contractual rights | Plaintiff has rights in an existing or proposed contract | Formation performance termination or contractual benefits | Judicial intentional-race-discrimination requirement | Judicial but-for causation of contractual injury | Nongovernmental impairment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lambert v. Tesla, Inc. — 923 F.3d 1246 (2019) · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2019 (42usc1981: author: Flash2 · QA: FIX (Fable, neov2/cases/TRIAGE-Flash.md)) | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed |
Elements 7–12 of 15
| Case | Judicial section 1983 remedial route for state-law impairment | Opposition to racial impairment of contract rights | Judicial defendant-knowledge requirement for retaliation | Judicial material-adversity requirement for retaliation | Judicial causation requirement for retaliatory injury | Contract and retaliation scope with noncontract clauses identified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lambert v. Tesla, Inc. — 923 F.3d 1246 (2019) · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2019 (42usc1981: author: Flash2 · QA: FIX (Fable, neov2/cases/TRIAGE-Flash.md)) | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed |
Elements 13–15 of 15
| Case | Judicial hostile-environment threshold and attribution | Claim-specific limitations and accrual | Compensatory equitable punitive and fee remedies |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lambert v. Tesla, Inc. — 923 F.3d 1246 (2019) · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2019 (42usc1981: author: Flash2 · QA: FIX (Fable, neov2/cases/TRIAGE-Flash.md)) | · not addressed | · not addressed | ○ not reached · basis not recordedNot counted: background/procedural |
Instances and excluded annotation blocks
| Case | Element | Holding and scope | Pattern | Exact source quotations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lambert v. Tesla, Inc. — 923 F.3d 1246 (2019) · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2019 — not reached (42usc1981: author: Flash2 · QA: FIX (Fable, neov2/cases/TRIAGE-Flash.md)) | Compensatory equitable punitive and fee remedies | not_reached Excluded from merits counts background / proceduralA forum ruling, not a ruling on any remedy or element: Section 1981 claims may be sent to arbitration under an employment arbitration clause. Chief Judge Thomas concurs because bound by Luce, Forward, which he considers wrongly decided. | compulsory-arbitration-of-section-1981-claims-under-section-118-of-the-1991-act | Because the unambiguous language of § 118 applies to § 1981, and the statutory purpose of § 1981 does not evince a preclusion of arbitrability, Gilmer and Luce, Forward compel our conclusion: § 1981 claims can be subjected to compulsory arbitration.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_923.jsonl#/f3d/923/1246-01; Unicode character offsets [12664:12913] (end exclusive); SHA-256 0e9ed12b5e019c1e959cd916eb21cfcb8a2ba7a19a36e0fd00336c858e6a2118.We therefore conclude that the district court correctly determined that § 1981 claims can be subjected to compulsory arbitration.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_923.jsonl#/f3d/923/1246-01; Unicode character offsets [13994:14123] (end exclusive); SHA-256 0e9ed12b5e019c1e959cd916eb21cfcb8a2ba7a19a36e0fd00336c858e6a2118. |