Barclays Director Avoids Arbitration in Sex Bias Suit (Correct)

A Barclays Services LLC director can pursue her sex-based harassment, discrimination, and retaliation claims in court, a Virginia federal judge ruled, finding she didn’t need to assert “sexual” mistreatment to avoid arbitration.

The decision Monday by the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia weighed in on several unsettled legal questions regarding the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act.

Siding with Aloma Holsten, the court looked to US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit case law interpreting Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s sexual harassment provisions. Under Smith v. First Union ...