Arbitration Clause’s Choice-Of-Law Clause Not Unconscionable, N.Y. Federal Judge Rules

NEW YORK — A New York federal judge has stayed a sexual harassment case in favor of arbitration, finding the arbitration clause at issue, which contains a Georgia choice-of-law clause, is not unconscionable because it does not waive the plaintiff’s federal statutory rights.

In the July 3 order, Judge Joseph F. Bianco of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York further held, however, that he cannot grant defendants’ motion to compel arbitration in Georgia.

Marie Klein attended the ATP Flight School in Suffolk County, N.Y., where she was allegedly subject to sexual harassment by instructor …