# Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act Signed March 3, 2022, the **EFAA** lets a worker or consumer with a sexual-harassment or sexual-assault claim choose to sue in court even if they signed a pre-dispute arbitration agreement. It passed with bipartisan support. It is the main reason several harassment suits against Musk's companies are being heard in public courtrooms: - **Tesla.** A federal judge rejected Tesla's attempt to force sexual-harassment claims from the Fremont factory into arbitration under the EFAA. - **SpaceX, *Holland-Thielen*.** The Central District of California denied SpaceX's motion to compel arbitration. SpaceX's appeal (9th Cir. No. 25-4811) argues that some plaintiffs' claims fall outside the Act because they were men or were not themselves targets of harassment. - **SpaceX, *Dopak*.** A California appeals court let the suit proceed in court in November 2025. > [!note] Stub — expand with > Legislative history and sponsors · how courts are reading "a case which … relates to" a harassment dispute (whether the whole case or only the harassment claim escapes arbitration) · the gap it leaves for race-discrimination claims, which remain subject to forced arbitration (compare [[Diaz v. Tesla]], where employment lawyers count access to open court, rather than arbitration, among the preconditions for the verdict). ## See Also - [[Musk Companies Labor Litigation]] · [[Diaz v. Tesla]] · [[SpaceX]] · [[Tesla]]