context: Because the limitation on remedies found in the Circuit City arbitration agreement significantly undermines Title VII's remedial purpose of making victims of discrimination whole and its deterrent purposes of forcing employers to eliminate and prevent discriminatory practices in the workplace, we hold that the provision at issue in this case was not enforceable.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 12 F.Supp.2d 683, 688
citation_a.parenthetical: holding that an arbitration clause was unenforceable because it prohibited an award of punitive damages, which was available to the plaintiff under Title VII
citation_a.sentence: See Paladino, 134 F.3d at 1062 (noting that the arbitrability of discrimination “claims rests on the assumption that the arbitration clause permits relief equivalent to court remedies”) (emphasis added); Trumbull v. Century Mktg. Corp., 12 F.Supp.2d 683, 688 (N.D.Ohio 1998) (holding that an arbitration clause was unenforceable because it prohibited an award of punitive damages, which was available to the plaintiff under Title VII); cf. Perez, 253 F.3d at 1286 (holding that “federal statutory claims are arbitrable only when arbitration can serve the same remedial and deterrent functions as litigation, and an agreement that limits the remedies available cannot adequately serve those functions”).
citation_b.signal: cf.
citation_b.identifier: 253 F.3d 1286, 1286
citation_b.parenthetical: holding that "federal statutory claims are arbitrable only when arbitration can serve the same remedial and deterrent functions as litigation, and an agreement that limits the remedies available cannot adequately serve those functions"
citation_b.sentence: See Paladino, 134 F.3d at 1062 (noting that the arbitrability of discrimination “claims rests on the assumption that the arbitration clause permits relief equivalent to court remedies”) (emphasis added); Trumbull v. Century Mktg. Corp., 12 F.Supp.2d 683, 688 (N.D.Ohio 1998) (holding that an arbitration clause was unenforceable because it prohibited an award of punitive damages, which was available to the plaintiff under Title VII); cf. Perez, 253 F.3d at 1286 (holding that “federal statutory claims are arbitrable only when arbitration can serve the same remedial and deterrent functions as litigation, and an agreement that limits the remedies available cannot adequately serve those functions”).