arbitration-clause

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25-850 California Crane School, Inc. v. Google LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Response Waived antitrust-violations arbitration-clause discovery-rights market-division ninth-circuit pleading-standards 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit has ignored this Court's well-established standards regarding per se antitrust violations, including division of markets …
25-812 James Greiner v. Tesla, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response Waived arbitration-clause breach-of-contract consideration due-process prenuptial-agreement private-right-of-action 1) When a woman signs a Prenuptial Agreement for a set amount, she cannot argue in divorce court that the Law says "she has the right" to half. Theref…
25-340 Stepup Funny, L.L.C., dba Stepup Funny, dba AA7 Days v. Newsweek Digital, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied arbitration-clause docket-sealing media-intervention precedent-interpretation privacy-expectation subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the district court docket should be sealed because the lower court failed to properly weigh Newsweek CEO Dev Pragad's "spite" and "improper…
25-311 Genesis Financial Solutions, Inc. v. Steve Ford, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-17 Pending Amici (1)Response Requested arbitration-clause circuit-split consideration-requirement contract-law federal-arbitration-act preemption Does the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), 9 U.S.C. § 2, permit states to impose separate and heightened consideration requirements that apply only to …
25-220 John Gavette v. United Wholesale Mortgage, LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied arbitration-clause contract-law disability-discrimination electronic-agreement pleading-stage seventh-amendment Whether a district court may compel arbitration and dismiss a federal disability discrimination lawsuit at the pleading stage, without permitting any …
25-104 Joe Louis Adams, Jr. v. 3D Systems, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied arbitration-clause civil-rights double-jeopardy electronic-filing jurisdiction pro-se-litigant 1. Plaintiff submits agreement to the court that was used to set the Counter claim for the defendant... The plaintiff notes in the order from the j…
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?
23-522 Imperial Pacific International (CNMI), LLC v. Commonwealth Casino Commission, as Agency of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Ninth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived arbitrability arbitration-clause carve-out clear-and-unmistakable clear-and-unmistakable-standard delegation delegation-doctrine ninth-circuit non-binding-arbitration permissive-arbitration Is 'clear and unmistakable' delegation to the arbitrator to decide arbitrability negated by a carve-out to arbitrability in the arbitration clause?
23-271 Ryan Lynch v. Condominiums of Buena Vista, Inc. Minnesota 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review arbitrability-clause arbitration-clause arbitration-standards contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act judicial-review procedural-rights state-courts statutory-interpretation When state courts misconstrue or ignore a written agreement controlling an arbitrability clause governed by the FAA, if the provisions under §2 and §4…
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?
22-6976 Golda D. Harris v. Credit Acceptance Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-bias judicial-discrimination prima-paint-corp-v-flood-conklin pro-se-litigation stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent unconscionable-claims zahid-n-quraishi Is the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit allowed to substitute its decision(s) and overrule the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U.S.C. §81-…
22-518 Petrobras America Inc., et al. v. Transcor Astra Group S.A., et al. Texas 2022-12-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) arbitrability arbitration-clause contract contract-interpretation delegation-doctrine federal-courts judicial-review state-courts superseded-contract superseding-contract Whether the arbitrator or a court must decide whether a contract has been superseded by a subsequent contract
21-1138 Sherry Treppa, et al. v. George Hengle, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-02-16 Dismissed arbitration-agreement arbitration-clause choice-of-law delegation-clause official-capacity sovereign-immunity state-law tribal-government tribal-officials Whether a court can invalidate an agreement to have an arbitrator resolve questions of arbitrability (a 'delegation clause) based on the court's inter…
20-1313 Dimitri Shivkov, et al. v. Artex Risk Solutions, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied aaa-rules arbitration-agreement arbitration-clause class-arbitration dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act gateway-issues procedural-questions Whether an agreement that specifies arbitration before the AAA as the default dispute-resolution method must also specifically mention the AAA Rules t…
20-6159 Nelson L. Bruce v. Pentagon Federal Credit Union Fourth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitrability arbitration-clause contract-interpretation contract-validity delegation-clause dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act jurisdiction-challenge redress-of-grievance Whether the agreement/contract evidences an arbitration clause
20-515 Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company v. Gateway Hospitality Group Inc., et al. Montana 2020-10-20 Denied arbitration-clause civil-procedure due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice forum-selection fourteenth-amendment insurance insurance-contract personal-jurisdiction Whether the nationwide territory of coverage clause in the insurance policy obligated the insurer to submit to personal jurisdiction in a Montana cour…
20-428 Horacio Sequeira v. Republic of Nicaragua, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied arbitration-clause breach-of-contract choice-of-forum choice-of-law commercial-arbitration commercial-contract contract-validity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdiction jurisdiction-waiver motion-to-dismiss Whether the proper procedure for a district court to follow in FSIA breach of contract cases is to apply the FSIA to avoid converting a Motion to Dism…
20-249 Doug Ommen, in His Capacity as Liquidator of CoOportunity Health, et al. v. Milliman, Inc., et al. Iowa 2020-09-01 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration-clause contract-defense contract-defenses equal-footing federal-arbitration-act insurance-liquidation mccarran-ferguson mccarran-ferguson-act preemption state-law-preemption Whether the FAA preempts the generally applicable disavowal defense codified in Iowa's Liquidation Act
20-166 Michael Scott Anglesey, et al. v. Allied Professionals Insurance Company, A Risk Retention Group, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Amici (2) arbitration-clause arbitration-clauses consumer-protection federal-preemption insurance-contract liability-risk-retention-act mccarran-ferguson-act risk-retention-group state-insurance-regulation state-law Whether the federal Liability Risk Retention Act preempts state laws prohibiting mandatory arbitration clauses in insurance contracts issued by risk r…
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