Government,
Civil Litigation
Oct. 5, 2021
Teacher’s affair with student leads to limit on arbitrations
On. Aug. 31, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill inspired by the case being handled by Richard A. Schwartz of Browne George Ross O’Brien Annaguey & Ellis LLP. It allows “a minor to disaffirm a provision in an educational institution’s enrollment agreement that purports to waive a legal right” to a remedy arising out of a criminal sexual assault or criminal sexual battery.
Richard A. Schwartz was upset that an arbitration agreement prevented his clients from suing a school over an improper sexual relationship involving an adult teacher and a minor boy. So he got the law changed.
The Brentwood School in West Los Angeles derailed the case with an enrollment agreement -- which included an arbitration clause -- the boy's parents signed when he started at the school. According to court documents, a 45-year-old fem...
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