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25-716 ENI S.p.A v. Gulf LNG Energy, LLC, et al. New York 2025-12-18 Pending Response Waived arbitration claim-preclusion corporate-affiliation due-process fourteenth-amendment nonparty-preclusion Whether a state court may extend claim preclusion to deprive a nonparty of its claims based on a prior arbitration award without jurisdiction, and whe…
25-632 Laurence Bonday v. Nalco Company LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived arbitral-pleadings arbitration deference federal-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether a court may independently determine the scope of claims in arbitral pleadings without deference to the arbitrator's determination under 9 U.S.…
25-5958 Elet Valentine v. Verizon Wireless, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-10-24 Denied IFP 14th-amendment arbitration cpni due-process federal-communications-act service-of-process Whether a federal district court can compel arbitration and dismiss a complaint involving unauthorized access to consumer proprietary information by t…
25A334 Amaplat Mauritius Ltd., et al. v. Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-23 Presumed Complete arbitration enforcement-of-award foreign-sovereign-immunity new-york-convention sovereign-immunity waiver Whether a foreign state's submission to arbitration in a New York Convention jurisdiction constitutes an implied waiver of sovereign immunity from a s…
25-139 Michele A. Cornelius v. CVS Pharmacy, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act legislative-intent sexual-harassment statutory-interpretation Whether 'any dispute' under the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 applies to all disputes or only the firs…
24-1297 Royal Merchant Holdings, LLC v. The Ferraro Law Firm, P.A., et al. Florida 2025-06-23 Denied Response Waived arbitration due-process federal-arbitration-act judicial-proceedings pleading-standard procedural-rules Whether a claim in arbitration must be asserted in a pleading at the outset of the case and whether the standard for procedural due process in arbitra…
24-1104 Charles D. Hood v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied Response Waived arbitration contract-interpretation dispute-resolution equal-protection private-contract remedy-rights Whether alternative means of dispute resolution are required for redress when a private contract mandates arbitration for controversies
24-1092 Mungo Homes, LLC v. Amanda Leigh Huskins, et vir South Carolina 2025-04-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration contract-law federal-arbitration-act public-policy severability state-court Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court erred in applying a severability rule that disfavors arbitration and by creating a state-specific public poli…
24-6555 Bianca A. Hughley v. Southwest Airlines Fourth Circuit 2025-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration breach-of-contract employment-law grievance-procedures minor-disputes railway-labor-act Did the United States District Court of Maryland err in dismissing Ms. Hughley's Breach of Contract claim when she was denied grievance and arbitratio…
24A701 Karl Hansen v. Elon Musk, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-16 Presumed Complete arbitration dean-witter-reynolds issue-preclusion protected-activity sarbanes-oxley securities-law Whether a claim statutorily precluded from arbitration can be dismissed based on findings from a related arbitration proceeding involving different cl…
24-738 Juan Cartaya v. Travelers Indemnity Company Colorado 2025-01-13 Denied appraisal-process arbitration contract-interpretation dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act insurance-law Whether the insurance industry's appraisal process constitutes arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act
24-6025 Kecia Porter v. Jennifer Navarro, et al. Illinois 2024-11-25 Denied IFP arbitration color-of-law coram-non-judice due-process equal-protection jurisdiction Whether a court under color of law violates the petitioner's 14th Amendment rights by ruling on matters outside its jurisdiction without proper legal …
24-476 Ascension Data & Analytics, LLC, et al. v. Pairprep, Inc., dba OpticsML Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived arbitration circuit-split federal-question jurisdiction preclusive-effect res-judicata Whether a court or arbitrator should determine the preclusive effect of a prior judgment in an arbitration proceeding
24-192 Izhar Shefer v. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied arbitration due-process eleventh-circuit legal-doctrine manifest-disregard punitive-sanctions Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that an arbitral panel's punitive and dispositive sanctions imposed in disregard of a party's due proces…
23A1153 James G. Robinson, et al. v. Armin Azod, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-25 Presumed Complete arbitration attorneys-fees forum-non-conveniens judicial-estoppel manifest-disregard venue Whether judicial estoppel can be applied to prevent a party from challenging venue or forum when the party previously made inconsistent procedural sta…
23-1271 Vitamin Shoppe Industries LLC v. Wendy Rincon, on Behalf of the State of California and Aggrieved Employees, et al. California 2024-06-05 Denied arbitration arbitration-stay civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act individual-claim paga-claim preemption private-attorneys-general-act standing trial-court-procedure Whether the trial court's failure to stay a representative Private Attorneys General Act claim pending arbitration of the Plaintiffs individual PAGA c…
23-1272 Vitamin Shoppe Industries LLC v. Jessica Reyes Whitt, on Behalf of the State of California and Aggrieved Employees, et al. California 2024-06-05 Denied arbitration civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act individual-claim preemption private-attorneys-general-act representative-claim standing trial-court-procedure Whether the trial court's failure to stay a representative Private Attorneys General Act claim pending arbitration of the Plaintiff's individual PAGA …
23-1261 Gussi S.A. de C.V. v. Voltage Pictures, LLC Ninth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award circuit-split federal-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure foreign-parties international-law marshal-service nonresident-service service service-of-process statutory-interpretation Have the Marshal service requirements of 9 U.S.C. § 9 on an application to confirm an arbitration award on a nonresident foreign adverse party been im…
23-7484 Lorenzo M. Wilson, et ux. v. Ford Motor Company, et al. Alabama 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitration civil-procedure constitutional-requirement due-process finding-of-fact finding-of-law findings-of-fact findings-of-law motion-to-compel trial-court Does the United States Constitution require the trial court to make a finding of fact and law in the granting or denying a motion to compel arbitratio…
23A977 Uber Technologies, Inc. v. Erik Adolph California 2024-05-02 Presumed Complete arbitration federal-arbitration-act paga preemption private-attorneys-general-act standing Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts California's interpretation of the Private Attorneys General Act that allows a plaintiff to maintain non-…
23-1128 McInnis Electric Company v. Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC, et al. Mississippi 2024-04-17 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitrability arbitrability-standard arbitration arbitration-agreement boilerplate boilerplate-contract burden-of-proof clear-manifestation-of-intent delegation delegation-doctrine federal-arbitration-act Does the Federal Arbitration Act allow use of the rules of an arbitral association in the text of a boilerplate, or form, arbitration agreement to pro…
23-1066 Continuing Care Risk Retention Group, Inc. v. Jacob Benson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-01 Denied Amici (1) arbitration arbitration-rights civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act federal-preemption insurance-business insurance-regulation liability-risk-retention-act mccarran-ferguson-act preemption risk-retention-groups statutory-interpretation Can Arizona's anti-arbitration garnishment statute reverse preempt the Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986 as to divest foreign risk retention groups…
23-946 Henry Eugene Gossage v. Reality Homes, Inc., et al. Washington 2024-02-29 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-appeal judicial-review standing trial-de-novo Whether the right to judicial appeal from an arbitrator decision is denied
23-899 Iftikar Ahmed v. Oak Management Corporation Connecticut 2024-02-21 Denied arbitration arbitration-doctrine civil-procedure court-proceedings damages-award degen-v-united-states federal-arbitration-act fugitive-disentitlement inherent-powers judicial-power Whether an arbitrator may apply the fugitive disentitlement doctrine
23-840 HomeServices of America, Inc., et al. v. Scott Burnett, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitrability-determination arbitration arbitration-delegation circuit-split contract-interpretation delegation dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act nonsignatory nonsignatory-liability standing Whether the court must leave the question of arbitrability to the arbitrator, or whether the court may decide the question of arbitrability for itself
23-834 Elizabeth Stafford v. International Business Machines Corporation Second Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-rights confidentiality-provision due-process federal-arbitration-act first-amendment judicial-document Whether an arbitration agreement can be used to keep an arbitration award holding an employer liable for age discrimination under the ADEA secret
23-763 JDH Pacific, Inc. v. Precision-Hayes International, Inc. Texas 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-standard clear-and-unmistakable-evidence evidence-standard first-options-precedent first-options-v-kaplan judicial-interpretation post-termination post-termination-claims state-supreme-court supreme-court-review united-states-supreme-court Whether a state supreme court can disregard the 'clear and unmistakable evidence' standard established by the United States Supreme Court in First Opt…
23A630 Iftikar Ahmed v. Oak Management Corporation Connecticut 2024-01-09 Presumed Complete arbitration due-process federal-arbitration-act fugitive-disentitlement procedural-fairness right-to-be-heard Whether an arbitrator may constitutionally apply the fugitive disentitlement doctrine to entirely bar a party from being heard in an arbitration proce…
23-730 Anna Pezhman v. Bloomingdale's, Inc. New York 2024-01-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-law civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 equitable-doctrine federal-preemption impartiality impartiality-doctrine judicial-intervention quota-system title-vii Does federal law preempt New York's mandatory equitable doctrine of seeking court intervention in mid-arbitration proceedings to remedy arbitral impar…
23A609 Lorenzo M. Wilson, et al. v. Ford Motor Company, et al. Alabama 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete arbitration findings-of-fact first-amendment legal-counsel motion-to-compel right-to-petition Whether the First Amendment right to petition requires a trial court to make specific findings of fact and law when ruling on a motion to compel arbit…
23-660 Grupo Unidos por el Canal, S.A., et al. v. Autoridad del Canal de Panama Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied arbitration arbitrator-impartiality disclosure disclosure-requirements evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act reasonable-impression-of-partiality vacatur What is the standard for determining whether an arbitrator's failure to disclose constitutes evident partiality justifying vacatur of the arbitral awa…
23-6291 Pietro P. A. Sgromo, aka Peter Anthony Sgromo v. Leonard Gregory Scott, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arbitration arbitration-clause contract criminal-reference federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce lease-agreement public-policy waiver Does the residential lease agreement involve interstate commerce such that it falls within the Federal Arbitration Act?
23-645 Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Johnathon Gregg California 2023-12-14 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (2) arbitration california-supreme-court civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act individual-claims non-individual-claims paga paga-claims preemption severance standing Does the Federal Arbitration Act require the complete severance of arbitrable individual PAGA claims from non-individual PAGA claims, with the individ…
23-6152 In Re Michael Alonza Rufus 2023-12-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP arbitration civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review preemption statutory-interpretation takings Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to review the constitutionality of the Federal Arbitration Act's application to state-law claims in state…
23-506 Occidental Exploration and Production Company v. Andes Petroleum Ecuador Limited Second Circuit 2023-11-14 Granted Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirement evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-precedent second-circuit Whether an arbitrator's failure to disclose a relationship evinces evident partiality
23-318 Nicolas A. Salomon v. Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, LLC, et al. California 2023-09-27 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-proceedings california-law due-process federal-arbitration-act fourteenth-amendment preemption right-to-counsel Does the Federal Arbitration Act preempt California law on the right to counsel in an arbitration proceeding?
23-322 Affordable Care, L.L.C. v. Raeline K. McIntyre, DMD, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitrator-bias bias circuit-split confirmation disclosure-requirements discovery evident-partiality judicial-review reasonable-impression Where an arbitrator and opposing counsel fail to disclose significant connections, does a party just have to show the 'reasonable impression' of bias …
23-90 Shaomin Sui v. FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied Response Waived 4th-circuit abuse-of-discretion appellate-review arbitration civil-procedure district-court Whether the 4th Circuit Court erred in upholding the district court's order concluding that arbitration fully decided all claims in the case
23A85 Nicolas A. Salomon v. Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, LLC, et al. California 2023-07-28 Presumed Complete arbitration arbitrator-reserved-issues confirmation-of-award federal-arbitration-act finality-requirement partial-arbitration-award Whether a court may confirm a partial arbitration award that is not immediately final because the arbitrator has expressly reserved unresolved issues …
23A58 Dawn Polk v. Amtrak National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-07-21 Presumed Complete arbitration collective-bargaining-agreement preemption race-discrimination railway-labor-act title-vii Whether the Railway Labor Act's mandatory arbitration requirements preempt federal statutory claims, including Title VII discrimination claims, or whe…
23-5126 Farkhan Mahmood Shah v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied IFP arbitration civil-rights collective-bargaining diversity-jurisdiction due-process employment employment-discrimination first-amendment misrepresentation religious-discrimination summary-judgment Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred by explicitly relying on American Airlines' misrepresentation of the terms of t…
23-30 Argent Trust Company, et al. v. Robert Harrison Tenth Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration circuit-split civil-procedure class-action erisa federal-arbitration-act federal-law individual-arbitration statutory-claims statutory-interpretation Whether ERISA-claims can be compelled to individual-arbitration
23-19 Bird Industries, Inc., et al. v. The Tribal Business Council of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation Eighth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-clause civil-procedure contract contract-interpretation federal-jurisdiction indian-law indian-tribe jurisdictional-waiver sovereign-immunity tribal-law Does inclusion of a mandatory arbitration clause in an Agreement with an Indian Tribe waive the Tribe's sovereign immunity?
23-5019 Kevin Y. Jin, et al. v. Rafael Velasquez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitration arbitration-dispute car-accident-injury civil-procedure civil-rights document-falsification due-process insurance-bad-faith medical-evidence standing witness-testimony Question Presented
23-3 Coinbase, Inc. v. David Suski, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-30 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitration-scope civil-procedure contract-interpretation delegation-clause dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act judicial-review jurisdiction Whether an arbitrator or a court should decide whether an arbitration agreement is narrowed by a later contract that is silent as to arbitration and d…
22-998 Alt’s Dairy Farm, LLC v. Nau Country Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-dispute contract-terms crop-insurance federal-arbitration-act judicial-review statutory-interpretation time-limitation time-period Is the timeliness of petitioners' district court actions governed by the one-year period provided in the Common Crop Insurance Policy or by §12 of the…
22-909 Kroger Limited Partnership I v. United Food & Commercial Workers, Local 1995 Sixth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response Waived arbitrability arbitration civil-procedure federal-courts judgment-on-pleadings labor-arbitration labor-law pleadings presumption-in-favor-of-arbitrability rule-12c Does the universal standard for judgment on the pleadings apply to a Rule 12(c) motion to compel a labor arbitration or does the general principle of …
22-608 CVG Ferrominera Orinoco, C.A. v. Commodities & Minerals Enterprise Ltd. Second Circuit 2023-01-03 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award federal-arbitration-act federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-sovereign-immunities-act new-york-convention public-policy service-of-process service-of-summons Did the Second Circuit err in holding service of a Summons pursuant to Rule 4 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Fed. R. Civ. P. 4, upon a party…
22-553 Derek Rodgers v. United Services Automobile Association, aka USAA Fifth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response Waived arbitration civil-procedure duty federal-procedure federal-rules rights rule-37 sanctions spoliation-of-evidence witness-coaching Should arbitrators have the duty and right to impose sanctions for violations of FRCP Rule 37?
22-470 Oceltip Aviation 1 Pty Ltd. v. Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-provision choice-of-law contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act federal-common-law state-law state-standards Whether courts may displace state contract interpretation principles with a federal common law rule requiring 'clear intent' to opt out of the Federal…
22-280 Rashid A. Buttar v. Rachan Damidi Reddy Fourth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure district-court due-process new-york-convention personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court had personal jurisdiction over Petitioner
22-226 Cintas Corporation, et al. v. Raymond Hawkins, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration civil-procedure contract-enforcement defined-contribution employee-rights erisa fiduciary-duty retirement-plan standing Whether an agreement to arbitrate claims against an ERISA plan's fiduciaries under Section 502(a)(2) of ERISA is enforceable without regard to whether…
22-194 Jehan Zeb Mir v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied arbitration civil-procedure de-novo-review discovery estoppel insurance-code notice notice-requirement statute-of-limitations summary-judgment waiver Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in de-novo review of summary judgment on disputed issues of fact
22-117 Oussama El Omari v. The International Criminal Police Organization, aka INTERPOL Second Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response Waived arbitration immunity international-organization ioia jam-v-intl-fin-corp public-international-organization statutory-construction treaty-interpretation treaty-ratification Whether INTERPOL is entitled to immunity as a 'public' international organization under 22 U.S.C. § 288 of the IOIA as interpreted by Jam v. Intl Fin.…
22-35 Yufan Zhang v. UnitedHealth Group, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment arbitration burden-of-proof due-process employment-termination equal-protection evidence-destruction intellectual-property Whether the burden of proof with clear and convincing evidence was improperly imposed on the plaintiff
22-19 Ukraine v. PAO Tatneft District of Columbia 2022-07-06 Denied arbitral-award arbitration civil-procedure foreign-arbitral-award foreign-proceedings forum-non-conveniens international-arbitration international-law judicial-confirmation jurisdiction jurisdictional-doctrine Whether the doctrine of forum non conveniens is available in proceedings to confirm a foreign arbitral award in the United States
21-8258 Luke D. Patterson v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration civil-rights contract due-process jurisdiction retroactivity Whether the recent precedents affecting arbitration clauses should be applied retroactively
21-1534 Rahila Tarverdiyeva v. Coinbase Global, Inc., aka Coinbase Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response Waived 11th-circuit-court appeal arbitration arbitration-agreement breach-of-contract contract-defenses federal-arbitration-act fraud fraud-exception judicial-authority theft Whether the Judge exceeded her authority when she ruled only 'breach of contract' and granted compelling arbitration if the Petitioner's claim concern…
21-1359 Robert Corliss v. Crossroads Financing, LLC, et al. California 2022-04-19 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-waiver california-state-court contract-law contractual-rights court-inconsistency equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-standard waiver Whether prejudice is required to prove waiver of arbitration rights
21-1334 Columbia Export Terminal, LLC v. International Longshore and Warehouse Union, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-07 Dismissed Response Waived arbitration arbitration-provisions collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction labor-management-relations-act labor-union lmra-preemption preemption rico rico-claims Does-section-301-of-the-LMRA-preempt-RICO-claims
21-1335 Waleed Khalid Abu Al-Waleed Al Hood Al-Qarqani, et al. v. Saudi Arabian Oil Company Fifth Circuit 2022-04-07 Denied Response Waived arbitral-award arbitration cross-appeal foreign-sovereign-immunity jurisdictional-immunity new-york-convention sovereign-waiver united-nations-convention waiver Whether a foreign sovereign may assert FSIA as a defense to enforcement of a foreign arbitral award
21-7521 Paul E. Pieczynski v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Relisted (3)IFP arbitration arbitration-award civil-action civil-procedure confirmation federal-arbitration-act miscellaneous-filing statutory-interpretation time-bar Is the petition or motion, when seeking confirmation to confirm a 'time barred' arbitration award, a miscellaneous filing or civil action complaint fi…
21-1108 Enron Nigeria Power Holding, Limited v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response Waived arbitration burden-of-proof civil-procedure commercial-activity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law legal-immunity yacht-sale Whether a foreign state has engaged in commercial activity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
21-1028 International Energy Ventures Management, L.L.C. v. United Energy Group, Ltd. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure clear-error-standard deference fact-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure litigation-conduct rule-52a standard-of-review Whether prejudice is part of the test for litigation conduct waiver in the context of an arbitration clause
21-956 Sojourner Rudisill v. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-review arbitration civil-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction labor-law railway-labor-act Whether the Railway Labor Act permits courts to exercise jurisdiction over due process challenges to decisions rendered by RLA arbitration panels
21-845 David Pitlor v. TD Ameritrade, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied arbitration arbitration-agreement cause-of-action civil-procedure complaint-dismissal conspiracy due-process federal-arbitration-act pleading-supplement res-judicata Does res judicata preclude a cause of action for conspiracy that arises after a Complaint was filed, but prior to that initial claim's dismissal, if t…
21-328 Robyn Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-01 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Relisted (2) arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle federal-courts litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-requirement state-courts waiver Does the arbitration-specific requirement that the proponent of a contractual waiver defense prove prejudice violate this Court's instruction that low…
21-5372 Jessica Graulau v. Credit One Bank, N.A. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied IFP arbitration arbitration-dispute civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection jury-trial subject-matter-jurisdiction telephone-consumer-protection-act Did the Circuit Court of Appeal violate the U.S. Constitution and federal laws by depriving the petitioner of a jury trial, due process, and equal pro…
21-208 Merrilee Stewart v. IHT Insurance Agency Group, LLC Welfare Benefits Plan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied affordable-care-act americans-with-disabilities-act arbitration civil-rights constitutional-protections disability-rights due-process employment-law erisa privacy Question not identified
21-111 NC Financial Solutions of Utah, LLC v. Virginia, ex rel. Mark R. Herring, Attorney General Virginia 2021-07-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-interpretation due-process federal-preemption individual-relief litigation-exception non-signatory standing state-attorney-general Whether a state attorney general who is not a signatory to an arbitration agreement may bring claims that are covered by the agreement and seek indivi…
20-1647 Valerie Haney v. Church of Scientology International, et al. California 2021-05-26 Denied Amici (1) arbitration arbitration-procedure civil-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-religion religious-arbitration religious-freedom Whether a court may subject a person to religious arbitration under the First Amendment
20-1564 James M. Perna v. Health One Credit Union, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts arbitration civil-rights due-process first-amendment forum-selection jurisdiction petition-clause sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether a grant of a writ of certiorari is warranted
20-1542 Michael Mogan v. Jeff Henry, et al. California 2021-05-05 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment arbitration attorney california-court due-process prevailing-party sanctions Whether a California court can impose sanctions against an attorney without violating due-process
20-1475 Wesley Perkins v. John Mischtian, Judge, County Court at Law 2, Bell County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied arbitration civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-arbitration due-process jurisdictional-challenge probable-cause standing statutory-challenge transportation-code Statutory Challenge ; Compelled Arbitration
20-1273 Franek Olstowski v. Petroleum Analyzer Company, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied arbitration arbitration-award bankruptcy federal-court federal-procedure full-faith-and-credit judicial-proceeding state-court state-court-judgment trade-secret Whether state-court judgments confirming arbitration awards, including state-court orders clarifying such judgments, are 'judicial proceedings' entitl…
20-1252 Stephen J. Simoni v. Jersey Shore University Medical Center, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied arbitration attorneys-fees circuit-court-interpretation civil-procedure federal-courts federal-labor-law labor-arbitration labor-law supreme-court-precedent union-rights Can arbitrators disregard Supreme Court precedent on awarding attorneys' fees to union members wrongfully denied mandated arbitration?
20-1032 Petrobras America Incorporated, et al. v. Vantage Deepwater Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response Waived arbitral-award arbitration circuit-split de-novo-review enforcement international-conventions new-york-convention panama-convention public-policy standard-of-review Whether United States courts should review de novo an arbitrator's conclusions on issues of law or mixed questions of law and fact bearing on the ulti…
20-6855 Stacia O'Neil v. Marisa Berquist, et al. Massachusetts 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-review arbitration commercial-disputes due-process uniform-arbitration-act Whether the Supreme Court of the State of Massachusetts denied the Petitioner Due Process of Law under the 14th Amendment
20-763 Ericka Richardson, et al. v. Coverall North America, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Relisted (2) adhesive-agreement arbitration clear-and-unmistakable delegation-of-arbitrability state-vs-federal-law unsophisticated-party Whether incorporation by reference of a separate set of arbitration rules constitutes clear and unmistakable evidence of intent to delegate the thresh…
20-642 Jorge Mendoza v. Uber Technologies Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-due-process constitutional-law contract-law dispute-resolution due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits legal-procedure procedural-rights Whether Constitutional Due Process can be part of Arbitration Jurisdiction
20-299 Milliman, Inc. v. James J. Donelon, Commissioner of Insurance for Louisiana, in His Capacity as Rehabilitator of Louisiana Health Cooperative, Inc. Louisiana 2020-09-08 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitration contract-arbitration federal-arbitration-act forum-selection-clause insurance-insolvency insurance-regulation mccarran-ferguson-act preemption state-regulation Whether the Federal Arbitration Act (the 'FAA') preempts the state's forum selection clause and requires the commissioner to arbitrate these pre-insol…
20-258 Alvin E. Medina v. Federal Aviation Administration Federal Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response Waived appeal appeal-rights arbitration arbitration-decision civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling judicial-review notice notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigant whether-the-failure-to-provide-notice-of-appeal-rights-with-arbitrator's-decision-and-certificate-of-service-to-pro-se-litigants-warranted-a-favorable…
20-5541 Betsy Sachs v. Bank of America, N.A. First Circuit 2020-08-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arbitration attorney-conduct civil-rights debt-collection due-process fdcpa foreclosure judicial-procedure manifest-disregard Whether the definition of a 'debt collector' under the FDCPA includes attorneys who select non-judicial foreclosure
20-238 Changzhou Sinotype Technology Co., Ltd. v. Rockefeller Technology Investments (Asia) VII California 2020-08-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award civil-procedure foreign-relations hague-service-convention international-litigation judicial-sovereignty jurisdiction postal-service service-of-process Whether a private litigant can waive a foreign state's objection to service by postal channels under the Hague Service Convention
20-128 Big Port Service DMCC v. China Shipping Container Lines Co. Ltd. Second Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied all-writs-act anti-arbitration-injunction arbitration arbitration-injunction circuit-split equitable-relief federal-arbitration-act injunctive-relief remedial-power Whether the Second Circuit erred in recognizing a cause of action for a party seeking to avoid arbitration and in concluding that courts have remedial…
20-57 Maurice McGinnis, By His Conservator Derrick K. Jones v. Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. District of Columbia 2020-07-23 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-procedure civil-rights competency consent-order due-process equitable-jurisdiction guardian-ad-litem miscarriage-of-justice procedural-deadline Whether strict application of procedural deadlines by an Arbitrator under the guidelines of the Consent Order in Pigford v. Glickman resulted in a fun…
20-55 William A. Anderson v. American General Life Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied arbitration arbitration-defense contract-interpretation contract-law due-process evidence-falsification false-evidence judicial-misconduct officer-of-court officer-of-the-court Is an arbitrator's assertion of a defense on behalf of a defendant a violation?
20-5068 Li Qin v. Barbara Kong-Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment ada-protection arbitration arbitration-fraud civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-jurisdiction due-process fraud medical-malpractice rooker-feldman-doctrine Where is the jurisdiction in U.S.A. over a corruptive arbitration?
20-3 Terry Balvin v. Rain and Hail, LLC Eighth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-review appraised-production arbitration arbitration-authority crop-insurance federal-crop-insurance federal-crop-insurance-act good-farming-practices policy-interpretation statutory-rights Whether a private arbitrator has authority to determine 'Good Farming Practices' in a federal crop insurance dispute
19-1419 Michael A. Henry-Bey v. Hector Castro, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeals appellate-procedure arbitration civil-procedure court-transfer due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review pro-se-litigant standing subject-matter-jurisdiction transfer Whether the court had federal question jurisdiction to hear the petitioner's appeal, and if not, should the court have transferred the appeal to the c…
19-1382 Sterling Jewelers, Inc. v. Laryssa Jock, et al. Second Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Amici (2) absent-class-members arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitrator-authority class-arbitration consent consent-requirement contract-interpretation due-process lamps-plus lamps-plus-v-varela stolt-nielsen stolt-nielsen-v-animalfeeds Whether an arbitrator may compel class arbitration without finding actual consent, and instead based only on a finding that the agreement does not una…
19-1336 The National Retirement Fund, et al. v. Metz Culinary Management, Inc. Second Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actuarial-assumptions arbitration best-estimate employee-retirement-income-security-act-erisa erisa measurement-date multiemployer-pension-plan statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability Whether ERISA prohibits multiemployer pension plan actuaries from selecting actuarial assumptions to calculate withdrawal liability, after the Measure…
19-1333 Monster Energy Company, fka Hansen Beverage Company v. City Beverages LLC, dba Olympic Eagle Distributing Ninth Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-awards bias circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirements disclosure-rule evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-standard standard standard-of-review What is the standard for determining 'evident partiality' under the Federal Arbitration Act?
19-1165 Chuck Willis v. Tower Loan of Mississippi, LLC Fifth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitrator-selection baseline-intent-to-arbitrate circuit-split contract-formation contract-interpretation definite-agreement gorsuch-dissent intent-to-arbitrate meeting-of-minds meeting-of-the-minds standard-of-review Whether the parties entered into a sufficiently definite agreement to arbitrate despite multiple discrepancies between the arbitration agreements
19-1078 AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. v. Steven McArdle Ninth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements california-law civil-procedure class-wide-injunction consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunction public-injunctive-relief Whether California's public-policy rule conditioning the enforceability of arbitration agreements on acquiescence to public-injunction proceedings is …
19-1013 Darru K. Hsu v. UBS Financial Services, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied class-action controlling-question-of-law exculpatory-clause interlocutory-review appellate-jurisdiction arbitration civil-rights class-action due-process federal-arbitration-act investment-contract jurisdictional-challenge sec-regulation securities standing statutory-violation Whether the Supreme Court should grant the judgment for the violation of SEC Heitman Capital No Action Letter in UBS MAC wrap-fee investment contract …
19-944 Scott A. Seldin v. Theodore M. Seldin, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response Waived arbitration civil-procedure functus-officio jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar law-of-the-case mandate-rule rule-of-mandate statutory-interpretation trust-accounting Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of a narrow statutory trust accounting action
19-854 Universal Telephone Exchange, Inc. v. ZTE Corporation, et al. Texas 2020-01-08 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-law federal-arbitration-act fraud fraud-standard legal-integrity revised-uniform-arbitration-act statutory-interpretation texas-civil-practices-and-remedies-code undue-means uniform-arbitration-act Does an admission by a party of contemporaneous illegal activity establish 'fraud, corruption or undue means' sufficient to vacate an arbitration awar…
19-761 KT Corporation, et al. v. ABS Holdings, Ltd., et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-awards contract contract-disputes due-process due-process-standards enforcement-actions foreign-government foreign-law-enforcement international-comity satellite-dispute tribunal-mandate Does the doctrine of international comity bar our courts from enforcing arbitration awards that are based on a tribunal's conclusion — in excess of it…
19-712 Hamp's Construction, LLC v. Inland Marine Services, L.L.C. Louisiana 2019-12-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-law civil-procedure due-process federal-courts industrial-justice judicial-review manifest-disregard statutory-interpretation statutory-law vacatur Is 'manifest disregard of the law' still a valid basis to vacate or modify an arbitrator's award?
19-637 Emma Serna v. Margette Webster, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration arbitration-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights contract-dispute default-judgments deprivation-of-rights due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure mandamus misconduct standing state-court-jurisdiction Whether a writ of mandamus should be issued to obtain a written judgment to execute, which has money issued with it, after the state supreme court had…
19-6338 Gerald Nelson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitration arbitration-award back-pay back-pay-settlement civil-rights due-process gross-income gross-income-taxation section-1983 tax tax-law tax-liability unemployment unemployment-benefits Whether gross income includes back pay settlements that deduct taxpayer's Unemployment Benefits in an Arbitration Award, and who is the taxpayer - the…
19-331 Sequoia Capital Operations, LLC v. Jessica Gingras, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied arbitrability arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract contract-interpretation contract-law court-jurisdiction delegation-provision federal-arbitration-act jurisdiction Whether Section 2 of the Federal Arbitration Act requires a court to decide any challenge to a delegation provision's validity before the court may pr…
19-301 Republic of Kazakhstan v. Anatolie Stati, et al. District of Columbia 2019-09-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration civil-procedure confirmation-proceeding due-process foreign-arbitral-award foreign-arbitral-awards foreign-sovereign-immunity fraud fraud-defense new-york-convention public-policy sovereign-immunity Whether a district court may confirm a foreign arbitral award that violates the long-established public policy of the United States, merely because th…
19-22 Rickey Newsome v. RSL Funding, LLC, et al. Texas 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration arbitration-clause bill-of-review civil-rights contract-defenses contract-formation court-approval court-jurisdiction structured-settlement structured-settlement-protection-act texas-sspa texas-supreme-court Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in compelling arbitration and staying the bill of review proceeding
18-1437 Winston & Strawn LLP v. Constance Ramos, et al. California 2019-05-16 Denied Amici (6) arbitration arbitration-agreements armendariz civil-rights contract-law employment employment-arbitration federal-arbitration-act preemption severability unconscionability Whether California's Armendariz requirements and arbitration-specific unconscionability rules are preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act
18-1242 Endre' Glenn v. Nordic Services, Inc. Washington 2019-03-25 Denied arbitration arbitration-procedure due-process equal-protection material-evidence material-testimony reasonable-opportunity reasonable-opportunity-to-prepare subpoena subpoena-duces-tecum washington-state-law Whether contractor and subcontractor violated homeowner's due process rights by ignoring subpoena and arbitrator's order, depriving homeowner of mater…
18-8509 Towaki Komatsu v. NTT Data, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration arbitration-impossibility civil-procedure civil-rights contractor-misclassification due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-jurisdiction financial-impossibility rooker-feldman-doctrine standing supplemental-jurisdiction younger-abstention younger-abstention-doctrine Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in affirming the judgment of the U.S. District Court
18-1175 Colin Shillinglaw v. Baylor University, et al. Texas 2019-03-11 Denied Response Waived anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-preemption preemption res-judicata state-court-procedure Whether the FAA preempts a conflicting state anti-SLAPP statute and precludes a state court from refusing either to compel arbitration or to stay liti…
18-1156 Morgenthau Venture Partners, LLC, et al. v. Robert A. Kimmel Florida 2019-03-06 Denied appellate-review arbitration blanket-order circuit-split federal-arbitration-act kpmg-llp-v-cocchi motion-to-compel prejudice prejudice-standard standing waiver waiver-defense Whether the Florida court of appeal's one-word refusal to compel arbitration disregards this Court's decision in KPMG LLP v. Cocchi, 565 U.S. 18 (2011…
18-7907 John Hassan v. Lawrence K. Marks, Chief Administrative Judge, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitration civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct property-dispute property-rights standing state-court-proceeding takings Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should grant certiorari to review the denial of due process and equal protection rights under the U.S. Constitution
18-7925 Syed Nazim Ali v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied IFP arbitration arbitration-immunity civil-rights corporate-representation due-process fair-hearing finra-arbitration immunity legal-standing pro-se-representation small-business small-corporation sole-owner Whether FINRA Arbitration process violated the Petitioner's rights of due process of law by failing to be fair and using the arbitration immunity to s…
18-1029 Sujit Ghosh v. DISH Network L.L.C. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-process arbitration-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial non-party non-party-participation party personal-guaranty standing Can a 'Non-Party' of an Arbitration Process get equal Privileges and Rights like a 'Party' as per the laws of the United States and its Constitution, …
18-1025 Lillie Leon v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law arbitration arbitration-decision arbitration-hearing civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process hall-street-assoc-v-mattel legal-preclusion res-judicata standard-of-review If the Arbitrator's decision was rendered unlawfully will this limit the scope of the preclusive effect of Res Judicata and Collateral Estoppel per th…
18-7618 David S. Neal v. ASTA Funding, Inc. Third Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP alternative-theories arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure condition-precedent contract contract-law dispute-resolution due-process non-parties non-party-enforcement standing Can non-parties to a contract with an arbitration provision be compelled to arbitrate based on alternative theories when the contractual condition pre…
18-976 Association of American Railroads v. Department of Transportation, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-28 Denied Amici (1) arbitration arbitration-provision due-process government-corporation industry-regulation regulatory-authority rulemaking rulemaking-power self-interested-actor separation-of-powers Whether PRIIA § 207 violates due process and the separation of powers by permitting regulatory authority to be exercised by a for-profit government co…
18-960 Nationwide Biweekly Administration, Inc. v. BMO Harris Bank, N.A. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1367 arbitration arbitration-agreement article-iii article-three case-or-controversy civil-procedure federal-court supplemental-jurisdiction third-party third-party-complaint Whether a plaintiff loses their right to have all claims that form part of the same case or controversy under Article III of the United States Constit…
18-850 David Altstatt, Sr. v. Melinda Fruendt, Executive Director, Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response Waived arbitration blind-vendors compensatory-damages eleventh-amendment randolph-sheppard-act sovereign-immunity When States voluntarily choose to participate under the Randolph Sheppard Act, and consent to arbitration of blind vendors' grievances, do the states …
18-7014 Muriel Collins v. Alan B. Epstein, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied IFP arbitration arbitration-hearing civil-rights code-of-conduct criminal-justice due-process employment employment-dispute last-chance-agreement retaliation termination termination-procedures whistleblower workplace-discrimination wrongful-termination Why was Plaintiff issued disciplinary actions for following Defendants' code-of-conduct and absolute-relief-procedures?
18-703 University of Southern California, et al. v. Allen L. Munro, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Amici (1) arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-scope erisa erisa-arbitration-agreement erisa-claims erisa-fiduciary-duty erisa-plan-participant fiduciary-duty plan-participant standing statutory-interpretation trust Whether an agreement to arbitrate 'all claims' that an ERISA plan participant 'may have' against a plan fiduciary encompasses a breach-of-fiduciary-du…
18-618 Dolores Gutierrez, et al. v. Wells Fargo Bank, NA, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied arbitration civil-procedure class-action dispute-resolution due-process efficient-dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act litigation-tactics procedural-strategy standing Is the Federal Arbitration Act's goal of 'providing efficient streamlined procedures tailored to the type of dispute' compromised by allowing a defend…
18-580 Nu Image, Inc. v. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied arbitration collective-bargaining-agreement declaratory-relief fraud fraud-claims intentional-misrepresentation labor-management-relations-act negligent-misrepresentation subject-matter-jurisdiction textron-lycoming Do federal courts have subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to Section 301(a) of the Labor Management Relations Act over a complaint for intentional a…
18-6340 Kevin Williams v. Eric Safire, et al. California 2018-10-16 Denied IFP arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure civil-rights contract court-of-appeal due-process involuntary-dismissal standing statutory-protection trial-by-jury Whether the California Court of Appeal erred in revoking the petitioner's statutory protection from involuntary dismissal
18-480 R. S. Raghavendra v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-opportunity federal-arbitration-act first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice recusal-law standing Whether the Appeals Court erred in denying the Writ of Mandamus petition to reverse the permanent injunction issued by non-recusing District Court Jud…
18-174 Applied Underwriters Captive Risk Assurance Company, Inc. v. Citizens of Humanity, LLC, et al. Nebraska 2018-08-08 Denied arbitrability-delegation arbitration arbitration-agreement choice-of-law contract-interpretation delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-hostility judicial-hostility-to-arbitration preemption state-law substantive-law Whether a general choice-of-law clause in a contract that contains an arbitration agreement should incorporate state substantive law without incorpora…
18-33 Subway Sandwich Shops, Inc. v. David Moshe Rahmany, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-agreement arthur-andersen circuit-split civil-procedure contract-enforcement equitable-estoppel federal-doctrine federal-equitable-estoppel federal-policy-arbitration ninth-circuit non-signatory standing Whether this Court's decision in Arthur Andersen LLP v. Carlisle, 556 U.S. 624 (2009), eliminated the federal equitable estoppel doctrine