{"id":10940,"date":"2026-06-12T07:34:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ab-51-update-judge-grants-preliminary-injunction-enjoining-california-law-restricting-mandatory-arbitration-agreements-as-condition-of-employment\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T07:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:34:46","slug":"ab-51-update-judge-grants-preliminary-injunction-enjoining-california-law-restricting-mandatory-arbitration-agreements-as-condition-of-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ab-51-update-judge-grants-preliminary-injunction-enjoining-california-law-restricting-mandatory-arbitration-agreements-as-condition-of-employment\/","title":{"rendered":"AB 51 Update: Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction, Enjoining California Law Restricting Mandatory Arbitration Agreements as Condition of Employment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"contentSummaryCollapse\" style=\"--intro-p-height: 10.3125rem;\">\n<div class=\"inner-collapse\">\n                        Judge Mueller of the Eastern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction enjoining Assembly Bill 51 (\u201cAB 51\u201d), California\u2019s recent legislation prohibiting employers from requiring mandatory arbitration agreements as a condition of employment, continued employment, or receipt of employment-related benefits for claims arising under California\u2019s Labor Code or California\u2019s Fair Employment Housing Act.\u00a0A previous blog post on the lawsuit is available here.\u00a0The Eastern District Court indicated it will issue an opinion detailing its reasoning in the coming days.\n                    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Mueller of the Eastern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction enjoining Assembly Bill 51 (\u201cAB 51\u201d), California\u2019s recent legislation prohibiting employers from requiring mandatory arbitration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[718,1713,1434,8141,451,8140,1150,600,423,153,7688,2352,6761,5544],"class_list":["post-10940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-agreements","tag-arbitration","tag-california","tag-condition","tag-employment","tag-enjoining","tag-grants","tag-injunction","tag-judge","tag-law","tag-mandatory","tag-preliminary","tag-restricting","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}