delegation-clause
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-26 | Berkeley County School District v. Hub International Limited, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-09 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitrability arbitration-agreement contract-termination delegation-clause dispute-resolution jurisdiction | Where parties enter into an agreement which expressly terminates on a date certain, and which contains an arbitration provision with a delegation clau… |
| 24-1266 | Jump Trading, LLC v. Nick Patterson, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-12 | Denied | Amici (2) | arbitration-agreement circuit-split delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act gateway-arbitrability nonsignatory | Where an arbitration agreement contains a provision delegating to the arbitrator gateway questions of arbitrability, must a court leave for the arbitr… |
| 23A804 | McInnis Electric Company v. Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC, et al. | Mississippi | 2024-02-29 | Presumed Complete | aaa-rules arbitrability arbitration-agreement construction-contract delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act | Whether a mere reference to American Arbitration Association rules in a construction subcontract is sufficient to create an enforceable delegation agr… | |
| 23A379 | Tug Hill Operating, LLC v. Lastephen Rogers | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-26 | Presumed Complete | arbitrability arbitration-agreement circuit-split delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act non-signatory | Whether a court or an arbitrator must initially decide whether a non-signatory can enforce an arbitration agreement containing a delegation clause | |
| 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… |
| 21-1132 | Scott Asner, et al. v. George Hengle, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-16 | Dismissed | arbitration-agreement choice-of-law circuit-split delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act federal-rights | Can a federal court refuse to enforce the delegation clause of an arbitration agreement on the ground that a choice-of-law provision applicable to the… | |
| 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… | |
| 20-1787 | YourMechanic, Inc. v. Jonathan Provost | California | 2021-06-23 | Dismissed | arbitrability california-labor-code delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act independent-contractor paga representative-claims | Whether the FAA requires enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement that includes a pre-dispute waiver of representative claims, including under… | |
| 20-1724 | David James Murphy v. Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., et al. | New York | 2021-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | arbitrability arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-law cross-motion delegation-clause motion-to-dismiss res-judicata | Whether the lower courts should have granted the petitioner's cross-motion to compel arbitration of arbitrability and denied or stayed the respondents… |
| 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 |
| 18-1308 | KPMG, LLP v. Singing River Health System, aka Singing River Hospital System | Mississippi | 2019-04-16 | Denied | arbitrability arbitrability-question arbitrability-questions arbitration-agreement contract-enforceability contract-formation delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act preemption state-law-challenge state-law-contract-challenge | Whether the Federal Arbitration Act prohibits courts from relabeling a state law contract challenge as relating to contract formation, as opposed to e… | |
| 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… | |
| 18-175 | Applied Underwriters, Inc., et al. v. Citizens of Humanity, LLC, et al. | California | 2018-08-08 | Denied | arbitrability arbitration-act arbitration-agreement choice-of-law contract-interpretation delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-hostility preemption rent-a-center-v-jackson state-arbitration-principles state-substantive-law Whether a litigant can avoid enforcement of a cont | Whether a general choice-of-law clause in a contract that contains an arbitration agreement should be read to import state substantive law without imp… |