On behalf of 10 nationally recognized and credentialed scientists, attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom and Consovoy McCarthy PLLC filed a petition to compel arbitration Thursday with the Superior Court of California, Ventura County. The attorneys are asking the court to enforce Sage Publications’ contractual obligation to arbitrate the scientists’ claims against Sage after the academic publisher retracted three of their articles and then removed one of the authors from the editorial board of an academic journal.