Most employment contracts, including Ms. Carlson's, also require any sexual harassment claims to go to arbitration, where all evidence and proceedings are secret.
Recently, a small-time landlord named Patrick Regan sat down with his attorney in one of the board's arbitration chambers to present evidence that a tenant in his six-unit building in upscale Noe Valley had moved to Hawaii with a female friend, and was subletting his six-hundred-and-fifty-five-dollar one-bedroom apartment, which was rent-controlled.
The legislation would make clear that sex discrimination law applied to arbitration tribunals and any evidence of sexism was "a serious irregularity".
A court in Hainan denied AMSC's request for a ruling based on the evidence, insisting on arbitration instead.
In doing so, he agreed to forgo an arbitration hearing at which the evidence against him would have been aired, possibly publicly.
Once those investigations are completed, Jacobs said, Hardy "will seek to have her period of suspension reduced substantially" by presenting evidence to an arbitration panel.
Mr. Lynch argued that a decision calling on the police to make 10 more work appearances a year would be illegal because, he said, the arbitration panel never received any evidence or documentation on the issue.
That prompted a response from Richard F. Scruggs, the Mississippi tobacco lawyer who is a supporter of Team Conner, in which he accused OneWorld's lawyers of trying to use United States courts to keep evidence from the arbitration panel.
His lawyer, Richard Emery, also released a report by an independent arbitration firm that found no evidence of wrongdoing by Mr. McMahon, who has served as the body's general counsel since 2002.
When Armstrong decided in August not to contest the agency's charges that he doped, administered doping products and encouraged doping on his Tour-winning teams, he agreed to forgo an arbitration hearing at which the evidence against him would have been aired, possibly publicly.
