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25-925 Peter Malkin, et al. v. Virginia Shasha, et al. New York 2026-02-06 Pending arbitration-award circuit-split email-service federal-arbitration-act manifest-disregard service-of-process Is manifest disregard of the law a ground to vacate an arbitration award and if so, what does it mean?
25-6708 In Re Allen Watkins 2026-02-04 Pending IFP civil-rights due-process federal-arbitration-act judicial-discretion ministerial-duty ultra-vires Whether federal judicial officers have a mandatory duty to confirm an unvacated arbitration award under the Federal Arbitration Act and whether their …
25-855 The Visionary, Books + Cafe, LLC v. Bank OZK Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Amici (1)Response Waived arbitral-award contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act judicial-review party-presentation-principle sua-sponte-grounds Whether a court must examine arbitral authority under 9 U.S.C. §10(a)(4) when an arbitrator interprets a contract
25-790 New York Football Giants, Inc., et al. v. Brian Flores Second Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Amici (1) arbitration-agreement commissioner-arbitration dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act procedural-fairness sports-league Whether an arbitration agreement governing disputes in a professional sports league is categorically unenforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act b…
25-764 Flintco, LLC v. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-12-30 Pending Response Waived arbitration-agreement contract-interpretation dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act legal-interpretation tort-claims Whether placing the 'tort' label on a claim excludes that claim from the scope of the dispute resolution clause in the parties' contract
25-706 Sergei Vinkov v. Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company California 2025-12-18 Pending arbitration-rights civil-procedure contract-law equitable-estoppel federal-arbitration-act preclusion-doctrine Whether the doctrine of preclusion overrides equitable estoppel in enforcing arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.
25A622 Allen Watkins v. United States District Court for District of Arizona Ninth Circuit 2025-11-25 Application arbitration-award coram-non-judice federal-arbitration-act judicial-review ministerial-duty statutory-mandate Whether the Federal Arbitration Act requires a district court to confirm an arbitration award when no timely motion to vacate, modify, or correct has …
25-585 SunTrust Bank v. Charles Daniel Bickerstaff, as Administrator of the Estate of Jeff Bickerstaff, Jr., on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated Georgia 2025-11-18 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration-agreement class-action federal-arbitration-act opt-out preemption state-court-rule Whether the FAA preempts a state court rule permitting a proposed class representative to effectively opt out of arbitration on behalf of all unnamed …
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 permit states to impose separate and heightened consideration requirements that apply only to arbitration clauses, or…
25A219 Hickory Heights Health and Rehab, LLC, et al. v. Yashika Watson, as Guardian of the Person and Estate of Zeola Ellis, III Arkansas 2025-08-26 Presumed Complete agency-rulemaking arbitration-agreements federal-arbitration-act long-term-care medicare-medicaid spending-clause Whether a federal agency's rule prohibiting pre-dispute arbitration agreements in long-term care facilities as a condition of Medicare and Medicaid fu…
25A218 Genesis Financial Solutions, Inc. v. Steve Ford, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-25 Presumed Complete arbitration-provision circuit-split consideration equal-treatment federal-arbitration-act prima-paint Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a state contract law rule that requires arbitration provisions to have separate, independent consideratio…
25-5447 La'Shaun Clark v. Jefferson Capital Systems, LLC, as Assignee of One Main Financial Group, LLC Georgia 2025-08-22 Denied IFP contract-law debt-buyer due-process equal-protection federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce Whether debt buyers are defined as Lenders and whether state courts violate due process by refusing to enforce federal arbitration agreements
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…
25-83 Adrian Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-22 Granted Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration-award diversity-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act federal-question jurisdiction post-arbitration-application Whether a federal court that initially exercises jurisdiction and stays a case pending arbitration maintains jurisdiction over a post-arbitration Sect…
25-34 Continental Finance Company, LLC, et al. v. Tiffany Johnson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-10 Pending Response Waived arbitration-provision consideration contract-law federal-arbitration-act fourth-circuit maryland-law Does the Federal Arbitration Act permit courts to apply a heightened consideration standard solely to contractual arbitration provisions?
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…
24A1230 Sergei Vinkov v. Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company California 2025-06-12 Presumed Complete arbitration-enforcement collateral-estoppel contract-severability federal-arbitration-act issue-preclusion supremacy-clause Whether the doctrine of issue preclusion impermissibly bars enforcement of an arbitration agreement under the Federal Arbitration Act when a prior jud…
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…
24-1230 Coinbase, Inc., et al. v. Darren Kramer, et al. California 2025-06-03 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived arbitration-agreement consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunctive-relief state-law Whether, or to what extent, the FAA preempts a state-law rule allowing a plaintiff to evade arbitration by pleading a request for 'public injunctive r…
24-1215 Miniso Depot CA, Inc., et al. v. Yongtong Liu California 2025-05-29 Denied Amici (1) arbitration-agreement dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act piecemeal-litigation sexual-harassment statutory-interpretation Should claims within the scope of an arbitration agreement that are unrelated to sexual assault or sexual harassment continue to be arbitrated under t…
24A1093 Royal Merchant Holdings, LLC v. The Ferraro Law Firm, P.A., et al. Florida 2025-05-14 Presumed Complete arbitration-award arbitration-procedure federal-arbitration-act procedural-due-process state-court-review vacatur Whether a state appellate court violates the Federal Arbitration Act by vacating an arbitration award on the ground that the arbitration procedure fai…
24-1145 Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., et al. v. Skot Heckman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-agreement contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act mass-arbitration ninth-circuit severability-doctrine Whether the FAA protects all arbitration agreements or only traditional bilateral arbitration agreements and whether the FAA preempts California's sev…
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…
24-6986 Michele Blakely v. CarMax Auto Superstores, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-04-14 Denied IFP citizenship-determination diversity-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act jurisdictional-amount removal-action subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal district courts have subject matter jurisdiction in removal actions involving multiple defendants and arbitration awards when citizens…
24-935 Flower Foods, Inc., et al. v. Angelo Brock Tenth Circuit 2025-02-28 Granted Amici (22)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) contract-law employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Are workers who deliver locally goods that travel in interstate commerce —but who do not transport the goods across borders nor interact with vehicles…
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
24-712 Daniel Peterson v. Minerva Surgical, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-03 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration-agreements article-iii constitutional-interpretation federal-arbitration-act judicial-oversight public-policy Whether the Supreme Court can relinquish Article III duties by deferring to arbitrators when enforcing arbitration awards
24-596 Aircraft Service International, Inc., et al. v. Danny Lopez Ninth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response Waived employment-contract federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent transportation-workers Whether workers who fuel airplanes, but who never directly or physically move interstate goods, are engaged in the interstate transportation of goods …
24-559 Tenneco, Inc., et al. v. Tanika Parker, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied Response Waived arbitration-procedure effective-vindication-exception erisa federal-arbitration-act plan-participant statutory-interpretation Whether the judge-made 'effective vindication' exception to the Federal Arbitration Act may be used to invalidate an individual arbitration procedure …
24-392 Argent Trust Company v. Ramon DeJesus Cedeno, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-09 Denied Response Waived arbitration-provision circuit-split erisa-claims federal-arbitration-act plan-participant statutory-interpretation Whether an ERISA plan participant can bring individual claims and be compelled to individual arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act
24-365 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Charles Ramsey California 2024-10-01 Denied Amici (2) arbitration-agreement consumer-legal-remedies-act federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunctive-relief unfair-competition-law Whether the FAA preempts California's McGill rule that renders standard arbitration agreements unenforceable when a consumer-plaintiff seeks to enjoin…
24A232 Juan Cartaya v. Travelers Indemnity Company Colorado 2024-09-04 Presumed Complete arbitral-immunity arbitration-decision civil-liability colorado-court-of-appeals federal-arbitration-act supreme-court-review Whether the Federal Arbitration Act provides arbitrators with absolute immunity from civil liability for their decisions
24-135 James G. Robinson, et al. v. Armin Azod, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied arbitration-award civil-procedure contract federal-arbitration-act federal-courts forum-clause forum-selection-clause judicial-estoppel manifest-disregard venue venue-selection Whether a litigant's statement accepting 'venue' in a district court can judicially estop that litigant from later seeking to dismiss a new action in …
24-128 Caf Dowlah v. American Arbitration Association, et al. New York 2024-08-05 Denied Response Waived arbitral-immunity butz-v-economou civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process federal-arbitration-act fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct res-judicata Does a conflict exist between the Federal Arbitration Act and Butz v. Economou regarding arbitral immunity?
24-81 The ServiceMaster Company, LLC, et al. v. Tyron Cooley Ninth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied arbitration-severance california-supreme-court federal-arbitration-act individual-claims non-individual-claims paga paga-claims severance standing Does the Federal Arbitration Act require the complete severance of arbitrable individual PAGA claims from non-individual PAGA claims, with the individ…
24-64 Nicholas Piazza, et al. v. Gramercy Distressed Opportunity Fund II L.P., et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-19 Dismissed Amici (1) appellate-jurisdiction arbitration-stay circuit-split federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal interlocutory-order motion-to-compel motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-pending-arbitration Whether, under 9 U.S.C. § 16, a circuit court has appellate jurisdiction over an interlocutory order denying a motion for a stay pending arbitration o…
23-1357 Country Oaks Partners, LLC, dba Country Oaks Care Center, et al. v. Mark Harrod California 2024-06-28 Denied Amici (3) advance-directive agent-authority arbitration-agreement contract-statutes federal-arbitration-act health-care-decisions health-care-providers power-of-attorney state-law state-law-preemption Whether the FAA preempts state law contract statutes and regulations by singling out for disfavored treatment arbitration agreements entered into betw…
23A1119 Lowe's Home Centers, LLC v. Maria Johnson Ninth Circuit 2024-06-17 Presumed Complete arbitration-agreement federal-arbitration-act ninth-circuit paga standing viking-river-cruises Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a state court interpretation that allows a plaintiff to maintain non-individual Private Attorneys General…
23-1307 RAC Acceptance East, LLC v. Shannon McBurnie, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-agreement article-iii article-iii-standing claim-for-relief federal-arbitration-act lamps-plus mitsubishi-motors public-injunction severability standing viking-river Whether the Federal Arbitration Act permits courts to refuse to sever and compel arbitration of individualized and divisible components of a claim mer…
23-1296 Randstad Inhouse Services, LLC, et al. v. Adan Ortiz, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Amici (1) commerce-clause contract-exemption employment-law exemption federal-arbitration-act foreign-commerce interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Are employees who handle goods that travel in interstate commerce—but who do not transport those goods across borders and whose work does not directly…
23A1102 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Charles Ramsey California 2024-06-11 Presumed Complete arbitration-agreement consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act mcgill-rule ninth-circuit public-injunctive-relief Whether California's McGill rule impermissibly disfavors arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act by rendering standard bilateral arbitration agr…
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 …
23-1212 In Re Justin Mahwikizi 2024-05-13 Denied Response Waived arbitration-exemption ending-forced-arbitration-of-sexual-assault-and-se equal-protection equal-protection-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-review section-1 section-3 Whether section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act should be used to shield the Federal Arbitration Act's Section 1 exemption claim denials from judicia…
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-…
23-7330 Jessica Graulau v. Credit One Bank, N.A. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied IFP arbitration-agreement arbitrator-powers counterclaim diversity-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act jurisdiction manifest-disregard time-limitations Whether arbitrator exceeded his powers by awarding on a matter not submitted to him
23-1130 Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. California, et al. California 2024-04-18 Denied Amici (1) arbitration-agreements eeoc-v-waffle-house federal-arbitration-act individual-relief litigation-claims monetary-relief preemption state-law state-officials Does the FAA allow state officials to litigate claims for monetary relief on behalf of people who agreed to arbitrate those claims?
23-1132 Lyft, Inc. v. California California 2024-04-18 Denied arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act individualized-monetary-relief monetary-relief preemption public-officials state-law Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts state law
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…
23-1051 Great American Insurance Company v. Crystal Shores Owners Association, Inc. Alabama 2024-03-25 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived binding-resolution contract-interpretation dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act federal-law-vs-state-law independent-appraisal independent-appraisal-panel statutory-construction Does federal law or state law govern what qualifies as an arbitration' provision under the Federal Arbitration Act?
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…
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
23-769 Lyft, Inc. v. Million Seifu California 2024-01-17 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitration-agreement dismissal federal-arbitration-act individual-claims non-individual-claims paga-claims private-attorneys-general-act state-law-employment-claims state-law-preemption supreme-court-precedent Whether the Federal Arbitration Act requires the dismissal of non-individual claims brought under California's Private Attorneys General Act
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…
23-6337 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2284 arbitration-agreement civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court district-court-composition federal-arbitration-act federal-law-challenge ninth-amendment seventh-amendment What does 28 U.S. Code § 2284 mandate regarding the composition of a district court when an action challenges the constitutionality of a federal law?
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…
23A451 Lyft, Inc. v. Million Seifu California 2023-11-20 Presumed Complete arbitration-agreement federal-arbitration-act paga-claims preemption state-law-claims viking-river-cruises Whether state courts can circumvent the Supreme Court's Viking River Cruises decision by refusing to dismiss non-individual Private Attorneys General …
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
23-479 Jaswinder Singh v. Uber Technologies, Inc. Third Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied circuit-split contract-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-transportation residual-clause seamen-railroad-employees statutory-interpretation transportation-worker-exemption transportation-workers Does the FAA's residual clause exempt a class of transportation workers that directly transports passengers across state lines, but primarily performs…
23-460 C.K. Sales Co., LLC, et al. v. Margarito V. Canales, et al. First Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied Relisted (2) and distribute baked goods within defined intrast sell civil-procedure contract-employment contract-exemption employment-contracts employment-law exemption-clause federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-worker transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for 'contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, and any other class of workers engaged in …
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
23-424 Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Jennifer Miller, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) circuit-split delivery-drivers employment-contract federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-deliveries statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for 'contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in f…
23-427 Domino’s Pizza, LLC v. Edmond Carmona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-procedure commerce-clause delivery-drivers federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-delivery standing statutory-interpretation transportation-law workers Whether local delivery drivers are 'engaged in foreign or interstate commerce' under the Federal Arbitration Act
23-393 Shichinin, LLC v. Sprint Corporation Fifth Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement arbitration-venue contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act forum-shopping hawaii-arbitration-statute post-arbitration-proceedings venue volt-v-stanford Whether the FAA's venue provision can be abused to permit forum shopping for post-arbitration proceedings, contrary to the parties' agreement
23-369 Javitch Block LLC, et al. v. Khadija Smith Ohio 2023-10-05 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration-agreement class-action-waiver contract-enforcement federal-arbitration-act nonsignatory-agent principal-agent state-law Whether the Ohio Court of Appeals erred by denying enforcement of an arbitration agreement and class action waiver governed by the Federal Arbitration…
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?
23A265 Jaswinder Singh v. Uber Technologies, Inc. Third Circuit 2023-09-26 Presumed Complete arbitration-exemption circuit-split federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for 'any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce' applies to rideshare driver…
23-269 Charles Juntikka v. Cadell & Chapman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement arbitrator-decision civil-procedure contract-interpretation due-process equity-doctrine federal-arbitration-act serious-error stolt-nielsen-v-animal-feeds supreme-court-precedent Does the Eastern Associated Coal Corp. v. United Mine Workers holding that an arbitrator's 'serious error' does not suffice to overturn an arbitrator'…
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…
23-122 Wilmington Trust, N.A., et al. v. Marlow Henry, on Behalf of the BSC Ventures Holding, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan Third Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure effective-vindication erisa federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration statutory-interpretation Whether ERISA prohibits individual arbitration of claims
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 …
23-51 Neal Bissonnette, et al. v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-07-20 Judgment Issued Amici (14) circuit-split employment-contract employment-contracts federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce railroad-employees seamen statutory-interpretation transportation-industry Whether a class of workers actively engaged in interstate transportation must also be employed by a company in the transportation industry to be exemp…
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
23-3 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…
22-1237 Ryan Daly, et al. v. Alexis Chechowitz, et al. Massachusetts 2023-06-23 Denied arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure class-action class-action-settlement due-process federal-arbitration-act preemption supremacy-clause Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts Mass. R. Civ. P. 23
22-1218 Wendy Smith, et al. v. Keith Spizzirri, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-16 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (3) arbitration-agreement circuit-conflict circuit-split dismiss district-court-procedure federal-arbitration-act judicial-discretion section-3 statutory-interpretation stay Whether Section 3 of the FAA requires district courts to stay a lawsuit pending arbitration, or whether district courts have discretion to dismiss whe…
22-1202 Spirit of the East, LLC v. Yale Products Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitration-award contract-enforcement criminal-statutes eleventh-circuit federal-arbitration-act hall-street-associates-v-mattel judicial-review public-policy Whether a court is prohibited from even considering public policy as a ground to vacate an arbitration award under the FAA when the award commands act…
22-7645 Bryan O'Brien v. Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios, LLP, et al. First Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitrability civil-procedure court-jurisdiction exemption-doctrine federal-arbitration-act mandatory-language statutory-interpretation threshold-question wholly-grounded-exemption Whether federal courts resolving the threshold question of arbitrability under some type of 'wholly grounded' exemption is consistent with the Federal…
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…
22-968 Ginger Atherton v. Key Bank, N.A. Washington 2023-04-06 Denied arbitrability arbitration-agreement conditions-precedent contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act jurisdiction preemption state-court-jurisdiction state-courts When there is a valid and enforceable agreement to arbitrate, and the dispute is within the scope of the arbitration agreement, does the FAA preempt s…
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-…
22-804 Lennar Carolinas, LLC v. Patricia Damico, et al. South Carolina 2023-02-24 Denied Response Waived anti-discrimination arbitration-agreement consumer-contracts consumer-protection contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-rule federal-arbitration-act homebuying state-law state-law-presumption Whether the Federal Arbitration Act prohibits courts from applying a state-law presumption expressly disfavoring enforcement of arbitration provisions…
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…
22-470 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…
22-265 Christopher N. Caputo v. Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC Third Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) arbitral-awards arbitration-law contractual-forfeiture contractual-provisions federal-arbitration-act judicial-review public-policy-exception statutory-interpretation statutory-violations Whether the public policy exception applies to an arbitral award enforcing contractual provisions that are expressly illegal, void, and unenforceable …
22-257 Lorraine Adell v. Cellco Partnership, dba Verizon Wireless Sixth Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Response Waived arbitration-consent article-iii article-iii-adjudication civil-rights class-action-fairness-act constitutional-waiver contract-law diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-arbitration-act Whether the voluntariness of the waiver of the personal right to an Article III adjudication under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA) and co…
22-230 The Golden 1 Credit Union v. Dwaine Burgardt California 2022-09-13 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived discriminates against arbitration and is contrary when such modifications are permitted under ordin arbitration-agreement contract-law contract-modification federal-arbitration-act jury-trial jury-trial-waiver kindred-nursing mutual-assent state-common-law state-law Whether a special rule that prohibits parties from adding an arbitration provision to a contract by mutual assent manifested by conduct, when such mod…
22-157 The Key Finance, Inc., et al. v. DJ Koon Oklahoma 2022-08-18 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreements attorneys-fees civil-procedure court-precedent dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act judicial-enforcement standing Whether the decisions below violated the Federal Arbitration Act and decades of Court precedent by failing to enforce the express terms of the parties…
22-105 Coinbase, Inc. v. Abraham Bielski Ninth Circuit 2022-08-03 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-jurisdiction arbitration-appeal circuit-split civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal motion-to-compel Does a non-frivolous appeal of the denial of a motion to compel arbitration oust a district court's jurisdiction to proceed with litigation pending ap…
22-75 ForwardLine Financial, LLC, et al. v. Brandon Ahlmann California 2022-07-27 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitration-agreement employment-agreement employment-law federal-arbitration-act iskanian labor-code labor-code-violations paga private-attorneys-general-act viking-river-cruises Whether a mutual pre-dispute agreement to arbitrate all claims arising from the employment relationship is enforceable as to PAGA claims asserted by a…
21-1572 Domino's Pizza, LLC v. Edmond Carmona Ninth Circuit 2022-06-17 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) class-of-workers commerce-clause federal-arbitration-act goods-transportation in-state-delivery interstate-commerce intrastate-deliveries preemption statutory-interpretation workers-classification Whether drivers making solely in-state deliveries of goods ordered by in-state customers from an in-state warehouse are nevertheless a 'class of worke…
21-1564 Chancellor Senior Management, Ltd. v. Louise McGraw, By and Through Her Daughter, Nancy Reuschel as Power of Attorney, et al. West Virginia 2022-06-15 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement contract-enforcement court-appointment federal-arbitration-act forum-unavailability judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether the West Virginia Court's determination that the parties' arbitration agreement is invalid and unenforceable
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…
21-7937 Richard Rodrick MacDonald v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration-act arbitration-award authority contract contract-enforcement dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act federal-claims-court federal-court judicial-authority parties Did the United States Court of Federal Claims lawfully invalidate this Arbitration Award?
21-1455 Northport Health Services of Arkansas, LLC, dba Springdale Health and Rehabilitation Center, et al. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied Amici (3) administrative-law arbitration-agreements chevron-deference disfavored-treatment federal-arbitration-act health-and-safety long-term-care-facilities medicaid-act medicare-act medicare-and-medicaid-acts Whether the FAA allows states and federal agencies to penalize the use of arbitration agreements
21-1444 Dolgen California, LLC v. Tricia Galarsa California 2022-05-16 GVR bilateral-arbitration employment-law federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian-rule preemption private-attorneys-general-act representative-claims Does the FAA require enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot assert representative claims, including under …
21-1316 In Re Darru Hsu 2022-04-01 Denied agency-authority chevron-deference class-action constitutional-rights federal-arbitration-act finra finra-arbitration fraud investment-advisers-act judicial-review Whether the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) contradicts the Investment Advisers Act (IAA) when fraud is inside an investment contract, and whether inves…
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…
21-1307 Santa Ana Healthcare & Wellness Centre, LP, et al. v. Rubyann Mondragon California 2022-03-30 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-agreement california-private-attorneys-general-act class-action employee-rights federal-arbitration-act iskanian-rule iskanian-v-cls-transport lamps-plus-v-varela representative-claims supreme-court-precedent Does the Federal Arbitration Act require enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative claim…
21-1246 Postmates, LLC, fka Postmates, Inc. v. Melanie Winns, et al. California 2022-03-15 Dismissed Response Requested california-labor-code federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian-rule preemption private-attorneys-general-act representative-action-waiver viking-river-cruises Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali…
21-1188 Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC v. Iris Pounds, et al. North Carolina 2022-02-28 Denied arbitration-rights assignee-rights assignees contract-law discrimination-against-arbitration evidentiary-burden federal-arbitration-act preemption third-party-beneficiary Whether the FAA preempts a state rule of contract law that requires assignees seeking to enforce arbitration rights to meet a higher evidentiary burde…
21-1153 Waleed Khalid Abu Al-Waleed Al Hood Al-Qarqani, et al. v. Chevron Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitral-awards article-iii chapter-1 chapter-2 district-courts federal-arbitration-act foreign-arbitral-awards new-york-convention secondary-jurisdiction separability-doctrine Whether Article III of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards requires U.S. district courts to implement the pro…
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…
21-1121 Handy Technologies, Inc. v. Patrick Pote California 2022-02-14 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration-agreement california-private-attorneys-general-act class-action employee-rights federal-arbitration-act preemption representative-claims supreme-court-precedent Does the Federal Arbitration Act require enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative claim…
21-1079 Shipt, Inc. v. Jade Green California 2022-02-04 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3) california-labor-code epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian-rule preemption private-attorneys-general-act representative-action-waiver viking-river-cruises Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali…
21-885 PeopleConnect, Inc. v. Meredith Callahan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-15 Dismissed appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split discretionary-stay discretionary-test federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-of-proceedings Does a non-frivolous appeal of a denial of a motion to compel arbitration divest district courts of jurisdiction, causing proceedings to be stayed aut…
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…
21-747 Power Home Solar, LLC v. James Rickenbaugh, et al. North Carolina 2021-11-22 Dismissed Response Requested arbitrability bilateral-arbitration class-arbitration clear-and-unmistakable-evidence delegation-of-authority federal-arbitration-act Whether the incorporation of AAA rules into an arbitration agreement constitutes clear and unmistakable evidence that the parties agreed to have an ar…
21-742 Lyft, Inc. v. Million Seifu California 2021-11-18 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3) bilateral-arbitration federal-arbitration-act iskanian-precedent iskanian-v-cls-transportation preemption private-attorneys-general-act recurring-issue representative-claims Does the Federal Arbitration Act require the enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that a worker cannot raise representative clai…
21-725 PeopleConnect, Inc. v. Barbara Knapke Ninth Circuit 2021-11-16 Dismissed appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split discretionary-stay discretionary-test federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-of-proceedings Whether district court proceedings must be stayed pending appeal of a denial of a motion to compel arbitration
21-708 CLMS Management Services Limited Partnership, et al. v. Amwins Brokerage of Georgia, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response Waived arbitration-provision federal-arbitration-act foreign-insurer insurance-regulation mandatory-arbitration mccarran-ferguson-act preemption reverse-preemption state-insurance-regulation state-law Whether a provision of state law prohibiting mandatory arbitration in a policy of insurance issued by a foreign insurer is preempted by the Federal Ar…
21-526 Uber Technologies, Inc. v. Damaris Rosales California 2021-10-08 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) california-labor-code contract-law epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration ninth-circuit paga-claims preemption Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali…
21-453 Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Johnathon Gregg California 2021-09-23 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) california-labor-code contract-law federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration ninth-circuit paga-claims preemption supreme-court-precedent Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali…
21-420 Postmates, LLC, fka Postmates, Inc. v. Wendy Santana California 2021-09-17 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived california-labor-code epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian-rule ninth-circuit paga-claims private-attorneys-general-act Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali…
21-365 Branch Banking and Trust Company v. Sevier County Schools Federal Credit Union, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) arbitration-requirement circuit-court-split contract-law customer-dispute-resolution dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act standard-form-contract state-common-law Whether the Federal Arbitration Act displaces a state common-law rule forbidding companies from adding an arbitration requirement to their standard-fo…
21-344 Quest International Monitor Service, Inc. v. Rockwell Collins, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived arbitration-award federal-arbitration-act limitation-period procedural-rules removal removal-jurisdiction state-court state-court-procedure uniformity vacatur Whether the FAA's three-month limitation period for vacatur of an arbitration award is a substantive provision that must be applied to petitions to va…
21-309 Southwest Airlines Co. v. Latrice Saxon Seventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (2) circuit-city-stores-v-adams circuit-split contract-exemption eastus-v-iss-facility-services federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce ramp-agent-supervisor statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Whether workers who load or unload goods from vehicles that travel in interstate commerce, but do not physically transport such goods themselves, are …
21-268 Coverall North America, Inc. v. Carlos Rivas Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 GVR Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian ninth-circuit preemption private-attorneys-general-act representative-claims sakkab state-law Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a state-law rule which precludes the enforcement of an agreement to arbitrate claims on an individual bas…
21-220 DoorDash, Inc. v. Brandon Campbell California 2021-08-16 Denied Response Waived california-supreme-court epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration ninth-circuit private-attorneys-general-act Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under Californ…
21-196 SNH SE Ashley River Tenant, LLC, et al. v. Thayer W. Arredondo, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Hubert Whaley, Deceased South Carolina 2021-08-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) agency agency-law arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements contract-interpretation equal-treatment federal-arbitration-act powers-of-attorney preemption Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts the South Carolina Supreme Court's approach to construing comprehensive powers of attorney to preclude an…
21-119 Postmates, LLC, fka Postmates, Inc. v. Jacob Rimler, et al. California 2021-07-28 Dismissed Amici (1)Response Requested california-labor-code contract-law epic-systems federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration iskanian-rule paga-claims preemption private-attorneys-general-act Whether agreements calling for individual arbitration are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act with respect to claims asserted under the Cali…
21-77 Technical Education Services Inc. v. Steven Pinkerton Missouri 2021-07-21 Denied arbitrability arbitration-act arbitration-agreement arbitrator collateral-estoppel delegation-provisions federal-arbitration-act threshold-arbitrability Whether a dispute over the collateral estoppel effect of a prior arbitration decision must be submitted to and decided by an arbitrator pursuant to th…
21-31 Fast Auto Loans, Inc. v. Joe Maldonado, et al. California 2021-07-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-agreement civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act individualized-arbitration preemption public-injunctive-relief state-law state-law-preemption supreme-court-precedent Is California's McGill rule preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act?
21-13 KinderCare Education, LLC v. Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, et al. California 2021-07-07 Denied arbitration-agreement contra-proferentem federal-arbitration-act lamps-plus-v-varela preemption state-common-law state-law supreme-court-precedent Whether California courts can avoid consideration of Lamps Plus v. Varela and instead adhere to a contrary state appellate precedent
20-1804 In Re Peter R. Culpepper 2021-06-25 Denied arbitration-act arbitration-award contract-interpretation employment-agreement federal-arbitration-act federal-law judicial-discretion preemption state-law tennessee-uniform-arbitration-act vacatur Whether the FAA preempts the Tennessee Uniform Arbitration Act
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…
20-1615 Colin Masseau, et ux. v. Guy Henning, et al. Vermont 2021-05-19 Denied Response Waived 9-usc-10(a)(3)&(4) arbitration-review contract-of-adhesion due-process federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce manifest-disregard manifest-disregard-of-law motion-to-dismiss notice-pleading Does a court have the right to review an arbitrator's decision for manifest disregard of the law?
20-1573 Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Angie Moriana California 2021-05-13 Judgment Issued Amici (27)Response RequestedRelisted (2) bilateral-arbitration class-action concepcion employee-rights epic-systems federal-arbitration-act iskanian paga private-attorneys-general-act representative-claims Whether the Federal Arbitration Act requires enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative c…
20-1570 HRB Tax Group, Inc., et al. v. Derek Snarr Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Dismissed Amici (1)Relisted (2) arbitration-agreement california-law class-action class-action-waiver consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunction public-injunctive-relief Whether California's public-policy rule declining to enforce agreements for individualized arbitration whenever a plaintiff seeks a public injunction …
20-1462 Eni USA Gas Marketing LLC v. Gulf LNG Energy, LLC, et al. Delaware 2021-04-19 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitrability arbitration-agreement civil-procedure collateral-attack federal-arbitration-act judicial-review prior-arbitration-award prior-award Whether the Federal Arbitration Act permits a court to refuse to enforce an arbitration agreement delegating all questions, including questions of arb…
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…
20-1143 Denise A. Badgerow v. Greg Walters, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-02-22 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) arbitration-award circuit-split federal-arbitration-act federal-question-jurisdiction look-through-approach quezada-v-bechtel subject-matter-jurisdiction vaden-v-discover-bank Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction to confirm or vacate an arbitration award under Sections 9 and 10 of the FAA where the only ba…
20-7153 Anthony Lonnie Forbes v. SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP 1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act contractual-relationship contractual-relationships employment employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act retaliation section-1981 Where the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 prohibits racial discrimination in contractual relationships,…
20-1077 Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Bernard Waithaka First Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitration-exemption circuit-split civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce national-boundaries state-boundaries statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for classes of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce, 9 U.S.C. 1, prevents the Act's appli…
20-895 Scott Seldin, Individually and as Trustee of the Selden 2002 Irrevocable Trust, dated October 9, 1993, et al. v. Estate of Stanley C. Silverman, et al. Nebraska 2021-01-07 Denied actual-bias arbitration-award arbitration-awards evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-review public-policy statutory-interpretation vacatur Whether the FAA categorically forecloses courts from vacating an arbitration award on the ground that the award is contrary to public policy
20-729 Juan Carlos Celestino Coderch Mitjans v. EGI-VSR, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response Waived arbitration-award arbitration-confirmation civil-procedure court-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act international-commercial-arbitration panama-convention substantive-dispute Whether a court can decide a substantive arbitrable dispute that an arbitration award left unresolved, on a petition to confirm the award under the In…
20-700 Addie Smith v. Syhadley, LLC Washington 2020-11-20 Denied arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act motion-to-compel preemption state-law state-law-conflict supersedeas supreme-clause Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts state Supersedeas law
20-673 Fraternal Order of Police, Chicago Lodge No. 7 v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois 2020-11-16 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreements arbitration-enforcement eastern-associated-coal-vs-umwa federal-arbitration-act federal-policy labor-arbitration public-policy public-policy-exception supreme-court-precedent united-paperworkers-vs-misco w-r-grace-vs-local-union Whether the Illinois Supreme Court erred as a matter of law by expanding the scope of the public policy exception to enforcement of labor arbitration …
20-663 Peter R. Culpepper v. Provectus Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. Tennessee 2020-11-13 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act grounds-for-vacating notice-requirement preemption state-arbitration-law state-law-preemption supremacy-clause time-limitation Whether a state arbitration law that provides a stricter mandate than Congress intended is preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act and the Supremacy …
20-622 Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Bernadean Rittmann, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Amici (2) arbitration-exemption arbitration-regimes contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-delivery ninth-circuit seamen-railroad-employees transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for classes of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce prevents the Act's application to loc…
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
20-6059 Paul Edward Duran v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review arbitration-award civil-rights constitutional-violations district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-arbitration-act federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion-to-vacate Did the Ninth Circuit Court err by not issuing a COA, when the Court had knowledge that there were allegations of constitutional violations that were …
20-481 GE Capital Retail Bank v. Nyree Belton Second Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy-code debt-discharge federal-arbitration-act implied-repeal legal-procedure lower-court-confusion precedent statutory-discharge statutory-interpretation Whether provisions of the Bankruptcy Code providing for a statutorily enforceable discharge of a debtor's debts impliedly repeal the Federal Arbitrati…
20-395 Timothy C. Rote v. Max Zweizig Ninth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response Waived arbitrability-standard arbitration-enforcement employment-agreement federal-arbitration-act free-speech-retaliation non-signatory non-signatory-arbitration oregon-uniform-arbitration-act post-employment-retaliation prior-adjudication waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the district court erred and exceeded its authority under the FAA and OUAA by refusing to compel arbitration (finding waiver and non-signatory…
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…
20-249 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
20-237 Old Republic Home Protection Company, Inc. v. William B. Sparks, et al. Oklahoma 2020-08-28 Denied appellate-court-decisions federal-arbitration-act insurance-contracts interstate-commerce mccarran-ferguson-act preemption reverse-preemption state-arbitration-statute Whether a state arbitration statute that excludes insurance contracts from its scope can qualify as a 'law enacted by [a] State for the purpose of reg…
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…
20-75 Jeffrey G. Heston v. G. B. Capital Holdings, LLC Ninth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied civil-procedure contract-formation federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce maritime-contract police-authority standing takings vessel-berthing Does such a contract obtained in this manner sustain a determination of a 'free and fair' formation on grounds equitable to both parties under the Fed…
20-39 AVIC International Holding Corporation, et al. v. Soaring Wind Energy, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied arbitrability arbitral-panel-composition arbitration-agreement arbitration-jurisdiction due-process equality-of-treatment federal-arbitration-act new-york-convention non-signatory-challenge public-policy Whether the district court must independently review a non-signatory's challenge to an arbitral panel's jurisdiction before the arbitration, and at a …
20-15 Pennymac Financial Services, Inc., et al. v. Erich Heidrich, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1738 enforcement-of-agreement fair-labor-standards-act federal-arbitration-act federal-substantive-law individualized-arbitration state-court-decision state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Arbitration Act requires enforcement of an arbitration agreement as applied to Fair Labor Standards Act claims where the parties' …
20-4 Rosanne L. Woodroof v. Joseph F. Cunningham, et al. District of Columbia 2020-07-09 Denied arbitration-contract arbitrator-replacement arbitrator-resignation circuit-split contract-rewrite evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act section-5 Is it a violation of the Federal Arbitration Act for a state court to dismiss an arbitration due to the resignation of an arbitrator so that a pending…
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?
19-1188 Samaca, LLC v. Cellairis Franchise, Inc., et al. Georgia 2020-03-30 Denied Response Waived arbitrability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-arbitration-act georgia litigation preemption sanctions standing state-law Is Georgia's remedy for abusive litigation under O.C.G.A. § 9-15-14 exempt from arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act?
19-1154 Robinson Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC, et al. v. Andrew Phillips, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Dorothy Phillips, et al. Arkansas 2020-03-20 Denied contract-formation contract-interpretation contract-law federal-arbitration-act mutuality-of-assent mutuality-of-obligation preemption state-law-rules third-party-beneficiaries Whether the FAA preempts a state-law contract rule that singles out 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 …
19-1066 Comcast Corporation, et al. v. Charles E. Tillage, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied bilateral-arbitration bilateralism consumer-disputes contract-revocation federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunctive-relief saving-clause Whether the McGill rule falls outside the FAA's saving clause because it is not a ground that 'exist[s] at law or in equity' for the 'revocation' of a…
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 …
19-1015 Jeremy J. Walker v. Ameriprise Financial Services, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Response Waived 9-usc-10 arbitration-agreement arbitrator-powers federal-arbitration-act finra finra-code industry-code industry-dispute judicial-review mandatory-arbitration nasd securities-regulation Does the FINRA Industry Code supply the terms of the arbitration agreement governing a mandatory arbitration between a member and associated person?
19-959 TAMKO Building Products, Inc. v. Daniel Williams, et al. Oklahoma 2020-01-31 Denied Amici (1) agency-law arbitration-agreements equal-footing equal-footing-principle federal-arbitration-act jury-trial-rights practical-impact state-agency-law state-court-hostility state-courts Whether the Federal Arbitration Act permits state courts to craft state principles of agency law that uniquely disfavor arbitration
19-963 Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer and White Sales, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-31 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (3) appellate-conflict arbitrability arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-interpretation contract-law delegation-doctrine federal-arbitration-act federal-courts questions-of-arbitrability state-courts Whether a provision in an arbitration agreement that exempts certain claims from arbitration negates an otherwise clear and unmistakable delegation of…
19-875 OTO, L.L.C. v. Ken Kho, et al. California 2020-01-15 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-proceeding arbitration-agreement civil-litigation federal-arbitration-act preemption procedural-protections state-law substantive-unconscionability unconscionability Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a State from invalidating an arbitration agreement as substantively unconscionable
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…
19-672 The Rams Football Company, LLC, et al. v. St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority, et al. Missouri 2019-11-26 Denied Relisted (8) arbitrability arbitration-agreement clear-and-unmistakable contract-principles court-enforcement federal-arbitration-act lower-court-split state-contract-law state-law Whether the Federal Arbitration Act permits a court to refuse to enforce the terms of an arbitration agreement assigning questions of arbitrability to…
19-623 Shrinivas Sugandhalaya LLP v. Balkrishna Setty, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-15 GVR Relisted (2) arbitration-agreement civil-procedure equitable-estoppel federal-arbitration-act foreign-arbitration foreign-arbitration-agreement foreign-defendant new-york-convention nonsignatory standing stay-litigation Does the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards permit a nonsignatory to an arbitration agreement to compel arbitrat…
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…
19-187 Kalim A. R. Muhammad v. AT&T, Inc., et al. Alabama 2019-08-12 Denied Response Waived arbitrability civil-procedure civil-rights contract-construction contract-immunities due-process equal-footing equal-protection federal-arbitration-act judicial-bias jurisdictional-challenge state-courts Does the Federal Arbitration Act allow state courts to construe the Congressional policy to incorporate or accommodate inherent inequality to parties …
19-180 John Bucsek v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Second Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-court-error arbitrability arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreement-validity civil-procedure dispute-resolution due-process federal-arbitration-act henry-schein-precedent henry-schein-v-archer-white material-events merits-of-claim nsd-membership scope-of-arbitration standing Did the appellate court err by ignoring Henry Schein-Inc-et-al-v-Archer-&-White-Sales-Inc-139-S-Ct-524-US-Jan-8-2019-and-barring-arbitration
19-117 Inversiones y Procesadora Tropical INPROTSA, S.A. v. Del Monte International GmbH Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied arbitral-award circuit-split federal-arbitration-act new-york-convention subject-matter-jurisdiction vacatur vacatur-grounds Whether Section 205 of the Federal Arbitration Act confers subject-matter jurisdiction over a petition to vacate an arbitral award rendered under the …
19-99 Northern Kentucky Area Development District v. Danielle Snyder Kentucky 2019-07-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-agreement contract-defense employer-employee employment-contract equal-treatment federal-arbitration-act kentucky-revised-statutes preemption state-law Whether the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) preempts Ky. Rev. Stat. § 336.700(2), which invalidates arbitration agreements between an employer and an em…
19-72 PennyMac Financial Services, Inc., et al. v. Richard Smigelski California 2019-07-15 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement civil-procedure consent federal-arbitration-act legal-fiction preemption state-consent state-law state-party Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a state-law rule that prohibits the enforcement of an arbitration agreement in a dispute covered by that …
18-1543 Michael A. Katz, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cellco Partnership, dba Verizon Wireless Second Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-act arbitration-stay article-iii civil-procedure consent constitutional-rights due-process federal-arbitration-act federal-courts fifth-amendment judicial-review standing voluntary-consent waiver wellness-international-network-v-sharif Whether Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) § 3 requires the district court to stay the action after it compels arbitration of all claims and a stay is requ…
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
18-1308 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…
18-1175 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…
18-1032 Robert Steven Mawhinney v. American Airlines, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response Waived air-carrier-employee air21-complaint air21-discrimination air21-discrimination-complaint arbitration-provision department-of-labor dol-investigation employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-exemption ninth-circuit-error pre-dispute-arbitration pre-dispute-arbitration-provision settlement-agreement statutory-federal-regulation statutory-interpretation Determining whether an air carrier employee's AIR21 discrimination complaint can be subject to a pre-dispute arbitration provision
18-1011 Iveth Rodriguez Lopez v. ReadyOne Industries, Inc. Texas 2019-02-04 Denied Response Waived federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce preemption supremacy-clause which then preempts incompatible state law - civi commerce-clause contract-interpretation employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce preemption supremacy-clause supreme-clause texas-arbitration-act Whether an arbitration agreement must in fact be part of a contract evidencing a transaction involving commerce" to be within the coverage of Section …
18-990 R. S. Raghavendra v. Jane E. Booth, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response Waived anti-injunction-act arbitration-act chevron-doctrine civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act first-amendment fraud judicial-recusal title-vii Whether the dismissal of petitioner's EEOC retaliation claims without allowing for agreed arbitration violates the Federal Arbitration Act or civil ri…
18-951 T&T Rock Distribution, LLC v. Rutilio I. Velasco Texas 2019-01-22 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion arbitration-agreement civil-procedure court-of-appeals discretionary-review federal-arbitration-act litigation-stay motion-to-compel standard-of-review stay-of-litigation trial-court-discretion Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to review the denial of a motion to compel arbitration
18-929 Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services, Inc., et al. v. Rae Weiler California 2019-01-17 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) affordable-forum arbitration-agreement arbitration-costs arbitrator-role contract-law cost-sharing cost-sharing-provision federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-preemption preemption state-contract-law state-law Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a state rule that denies enforcement of a cost-sharing provision in an arbitration agreement without a fi…
18-925 A-1 Premium Acceptance, Inc. v. Meeka Hunter Missouri 2019-01-16 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement arbitrator civil-procedure contract contract-law contract-validity dispute-resolution due-process federal-arbitration-act integral-term judicial-review section-5 statutory-interpretation Whether a statement in an arbitration agreement that a specific arbitrator is to be utilized is an integral term that prohibits application of §5 of t…
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…
18-480 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…
18-319 E. & J. Gallo Winery, et al. v. Refugio Arreguin California 2018-09-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitrability circuit-court-split circuit-split class-arbitration federal-arbitration-act gateway-question gateway-question-of-arbitrability oxford-health-plans oxford-health-plans-v-sutter stolt-nielsen stolt-nielsen-v-animalfeeds supreme-court-precedent Whether a court, or an arbitrator, decides whether an arbitration agreement permits class arbitration
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…
18-159 Angela D. Clack v. United Services Automobile Association Fifth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response Waived 9-usc-4 arbitration-agreement arbitration-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process eeoc-claims failure-neglect-refusal-to-arbitrate federal-arbitration-act federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction motion-to-compel standing statutory-trial title-vii Whether a federal court can exercise jurisdiction to compel arbitration based solely on the existence of an arbitration agreement, without a finding o…