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25-716 ENI S.p.A v. Gulf LNG Energy, LLC, et al. New York 2025-12-18 Denied Response Waived arbitration claim-preclusion corporate-affiliation due-process fourteenth-amendment nonparty-preclusion 1. Whether, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and the Federal Arbitration Act, a state court may extend the…
25-632 Laurence Bonday v. Nalco Company LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived arbitral-pleadings arbitration deference federal-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation Under 9 U.S.C. § 10(a)(4), may a court independently, and without deference to the arbitrator's determination, decide what claims are presented in a p…
25-6258 Pamela S. Julian v. Dhurata Ametaj, et al. Massachusetts 2025-12-01 Denied IFP access-to-justice arbitration due-process economic-status federal-arbitration-act indigency X. Are an individual's constitutional due process rights violated when lower courts or arbitrators decline to hold an evidentiary hearing to review an…
25-5958 Elet Valentine v. Verizon Wireless, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-10-24 Denied IFP 14th-amendment arbitration cpni due-process federal-communications-act service-of-process 1. Whether Appellant Valentine's federally protected Due Process rights and access to the courts under the 14th Amendment of the United States Constit…
25A334 Amaplat Mauritius Ltd., et al. v. Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-23 Presumed Complete arbitration enforcement-of-award foreign-sovereign-immunity new-york-convention sovereign-immunity waiver Question not identified.
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 Does "any dispute " under the EFAA mean any dispute arising between the parties or just the first dispute arising between the parties?
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 the decision below —that a claim in arbitration must be asserted in a pleading filed at the outset of the case and that the standard for proce…
24-1104 Charles D. Hood v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied Response Waived arbitration contract-interpretation dispute-resolution equal-protection private-contract remedy-rights When every right withheld must have a remedy, and every injury its proper redress I, Charles Dean of the Hood family present the following questions f…
24-1092 Mungo Homes, LLC v. Amanda Leigh Huskins, et vir South Carolina 2025-04-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration contract-law federal-arbitration-act public-policy severability state-court Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court erred in applying a severability rule that disfavors arbitration and by creating a state-specific public poli…
24-6555 Bianca A. Hughley v. Southwest Airlines Fourth Circuit 2025-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration breach-of-contract employment-law grievance-procedures minor-disputes railway-labor-act Did the United States District Court of Maryland err in their decision to dismiss Ms. Hughley's Breach of Contract claim knowing that Ms. Hughley was …
24A701 Karl Hansen v. Elon Musk, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-16 Presumed Complete arbitration dean-witter-reynolds issue-preclusion protected-activity sarbanes-oxley securities-law Question not identified.
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, which fully and finally resolves insurer-insured disputes over the loss amount when two of three a…
24-6025 Kecia Porter v. Jennifer Navarro, et al. Illinois 2024-11-25 Denied IFP arbitration color-of-law coram-non-judice due-process equal-protection jurisdiction 1. Whether a court, Under the Color of Law Section 242 of Title 18 violates the petitioner 14th Amendment Due Process and Equal Protections rights by …
24-476 Ascension Data & Analytics, LLC, et al. v. Pairprep, Inc., dba OpticsML Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived arbitration circuit-split federal-question jurisdiction preclusive-effect res-judicata This case raises important federal concerns regarding policies favoring arbitration and the well-established doctrine of res judicata, where circuits …
24-192 Izhar Shefer v. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied arbitration due-process eleventh-circuit legal-doctrine manifest-disregard punitive-sanctions Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that - even when an arbitral panel imposed punitive and dispositive sanctions in disregard of a party's …
23A1153 James G. Robinson, et al. v. Armin Azod, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-25 Presumed Complete arbitration attorneys-fees forum-non-conveniens judicial-estoppel manifest-disregard venue Question not identified.
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 Plaintiff's individual PAGA …
23-1272 Vitamin Shoppe Industries LLC v. Jessica Reyes Whitt, on Behalf of the State of California and Aggrieved Employees, et al. California 2024-06-05 Denied arbitration civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act individual-claim preemption private-attorneys-general-act representative-claim standing trial-court-procedure Whether the trial court's failure to stay a representative Private Attorneys General Act claim pending arbitration of the Plaintiff's individual PAGA …
23-1261 Gussi S.A. de C.V. v. Voltage Pictures, LLC Ninth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award circuit-split federal-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure foreign-parties international-law marshal-service nonresident-service service service-of-process statutory-interpretation 1. Have the Marshal service requirements of 9 U.S.C. § 9 on an application to confirm an arbitration award on a nonresident foreign adverse party been…
23-7484 Lorenzo M. Wilson, et ux. v. Ford Motor Company, et al. Alabama 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitration civil-procedure constitutional-requirement due-process finding-of-fact finding-of-law findings-of-fact findings-of-law motion-to-compel trial-court DOES THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION REQUIRE THE TRIAL COURT TO MAKE A FINDING OF FACT AND LAW IN THE GRANTING OR DENYING A MOTION TO COMPEL ARBITRATIO…
23A977 Uber Technologies, Inc. v. Erik Adolph California 2024-05-02 Presumed Complete arbitration federal-arbitration-act paga preemption private-attorneys-general-act standing Whether the Federal Arbitration Act and this Court's decision in Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana preempt California's interpretation of the Priv…
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 1. 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 …
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 A.R.S. § 12-1584, which itself violates the Federal Arbitration Act, reverse preempt the Liability …
23-946 Henry Eugene Gossage v. Reality Homes, Inc., et al. Washington 2024-02-29 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-appeal judicial-review standing trial-de-novo The Washington State Court of Appeals Division IT and State Supreme Court has created an unworkable legal standard to Deny the prevailing unrepresente…
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 1. Under the Federal Arbitration Act, ("FAA"), 9 U.S.C. § 10(a)(4), does an arbitrator "exceed[] [his] powers" by applying the fugitive disentitlement…
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 The signatories to a contract agreed to arbitrate any claim or dispute arising out of the contract and delegated to the arbitrator the power to determ…
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 Age Discriminati…
23-763 JDH Pacific, Inc. v. Precision-Hayes International, Inc. Texas 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-standard clear-and-unmistakable-evidence evidence-standard first-options-precedent first-options-v-kaplan judicial-interpretation post-termination post-termination-claims state-supreme-court supreme-court-review united-states-supreme-court Whether a state supreme court can disregard the "clear and unmistakable evidence" standard established by the United States Supreme Court in First Opt…
23A630 Iftikar Ahmed v. Oak Management Corporation Connecticut 2024-01-09 Presumed Complete arbitration due-process federal-arbitration-act fugitive-disentitlement procedural-fairness right-to-be-heard Question not identified.
23-730 Anna Pezhman v. Bloomingdale's, Inc. New York 2024-01-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-law civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 equitable-doctrine federal-preemption impartiality impartiality-doctrine judicial-intervention quota-system title-vii 1. Does Federal Law pre-empt New York 's mandatory equitable doctrine of seeking court intervention in mid-arbitration proceedings to remedy arbitral …
23A609 Lorenzo M. Wilson, et al. v. Ford Motor Company, et al. Alabama 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete arbitration findings-of-fact first-amendment legal-counsel motion-to-compel right-to-petition Whether average citizens have a right to a finding of fact and law by the trial court on motion to compel arbitration, and whether the trial court's f…
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 1. What is the standard for determining whether an arbitrator's failure to disclose constitutes evident partiality justifying vacatur of the arbitral …
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 1. Does the residential lease agreement a contract involving interstate commerce such that it falls within the purview of 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 In Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana, 142 S. Ct. 1906 (2022), this Court held that the Federal Arbitration Act preempts the California-law rule th…
23-6152 In Re Michael Alonza Rufus 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review preemption statutory-interpretation takings Question not identified.
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 if it shows the arbitrator "might reasonably be thought biased,"…
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? Does the Due Process Clause of the Four…
23-322 Affordable Care, L.L.C. v. Raeline K. McIntyre, DMD, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitrator-bias bias circuit-split confirmation disclosure-requirements discovery evident-partiality judicial-review reasonable-impression 1. Where an arbitrator and opposing counsel fail to disclose significant connections, does a party just have to show the "reasonable impression" of bi…
23-90 Shaomin Sui v. FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied Response Waived 4th-circuit abuse-of-discretion appellate-review arbitration civil-procedure district-court The unpublished opinion of the 4th Circuit Court erroneously upheld the district court's order, concluding the district court did not abuse its discre…
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 Question not identified.
23A58 Dawn Polk v. Amtrak National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-07-21 Presumed Complete arbitration collective-bargaining-agreement preemption race-discrimination railway-labor-act title-vii Question not identified.
23-5126 Farkhan Mahmood Shah v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied IFP arbitration civil-rights collective-bargaining diversity-jurisdiction due-process employment employment-discrimination first-amendment misrepresentation religious-discrimination summary-judgment 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred by explicitly relying on American Airlines ' misrepresentation of the terms …
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 The question presented in this case is whether a participant in a plan governed by ERISA who asserts statutory claims under that statute can be compel…
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 1. Does inclusion of a mandatory arbitration clause in an Agreement with an Indian Tribe waive the Tribe's sovereign immunity?
23-5019 Kevin Y. Jin, et al. v. Rafael Velasquez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitration arbitration-dispute car-accident-injury civil-procedure civil-rights document-falsification due-process insurance-bad-faith medical-evidence standing witness-testimony Appeal/Trial Courts should not allow blatant perjury and/or false statements to be considered just. Also, Appeal Court will not reopen this case unles…
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 Where parties enter into an arbitration agreement with a delegation clause, should an arbitrator or a court decide whether that arbitration agreement …
22-998 Alt’s Dairy Farm, LLC v. Nau Country Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-dispute contract-terms crop-insurance federal-arbitration-act judicial-review statutory-interpretation time-limitation time-period Is the timeliness of petitioners' district court actions governed by the one-year period provided in the Common Crop Insurance Policy or by §12 of the…
22-909 Kroger Limited Partnership I v. United Food & Commercial Workers, Local 1995 Sixth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response Waived arbitrability arbitration civil-procedure federal-courts judgment-on-pleadings labor-arbitration labor-law pleadings presumption-in-favor-of-arbitrability rule-12c 1. Does the universal standard for judgment on the pleadings apply to a Rule 12(c) motion to compel a labor arbitration or does the general principle …
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 1. 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 pa…
22-553 Derek Rodgers v. United Services Automobile Association, aka USAA Fifth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response Waived arbitration civil-procedure duty federal-procedure federal-rules rights rule-37 sanctions spoliation-of-evidence witness-coaching QUESTION 1: Should Arbitrators deciding a Federal case have the duty and right to impose sanctions for violations of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure …
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, in interpreting contracts that contain both an arbitration provision and a choice-of-law provision, courts may displace state principles of c…
22-280 Rashid A. Buttar v. Rachan Damidi Reddy Fourth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure district-court due-process new-york-convention personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court of North Carolina had personal jurisdiction over Petitioner after Petitioner moved to another country and the contacts whic…
22-226 Cintas Corporation, et al. v. Raymond Hawkins, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration civil-procedure contract-enforcement defined-contribution employee-rights erisa fiduciary-duty retirement-plan standing Whether an agreement to arbitrate claims against an ERISA plan's fiduciaries under Section 502(a)(2) of ERISA is enforceable without regard to whether…
22-194 Jehan Zeb Mir v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied arbitration civil-procedure de-novo-review discovery estoppel insurance-code notice notice-requirement statute-of-limitations summary-judgment waiver 1. Did Ninth Circuit Court err in de-novo review of summary judgment in deciding disputed issues of fact as the district court had done, that 5-years …
22-117 Oussama El Omari v. The International Criminal Police Organization, aka INTERPOL Second Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response Waived arbitration immunity international-organization ioia jam-v-intl-fin-corp public-international-organization statutory-construction treaty-interpretation treaty-ratification I. Whether INTERPOL is entitled to immunity as a "public" international organization under 22 U.S.C. § 288 of the IOIA as interpreted by Jam v. Int'l …
22-35 Yufan Zhang v. UnitedHealth Group, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment arbitration burden-of-proof due-process employment-termination equal-protection evidence-destruction intellectual-property In this case, the evidence Zhang used to have as proof of his claims was taken away and destroyed by UnitedHealth Group at time Zhang was fired becaus…
22-19 Ukraine v. PAO Tatneft District of Columbia 2022-07-06 Denied arbitral-award arbitration civil-procedure foreign-arbitral-award foreign-proceedings forum-non-conveniens international-arbitration international-law judicial-confirmation jurisdiction jurisdictional-doctrine Whether the doctrine of forum non conveniens is available in proceedings to confirm a foreign arbitral award in the United States.
21-8258 Luke D. Patterson v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration civil-rights contract due-process jurisdiction retroactivity Whathar A kl/ provor dofoctre sdtmast stAxcl CAN ) Whothoe tho Dsthit Couet's coial Ad tho Appoals Couet Affemation in ERROR
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 1. Whether the Judge exceeded her authority when she ruled only "breach of contract" and granted compelling arbitration if the Petitioner's claim conc…
21-1359 Robert Corliss v. Crossroads Financing, LLC, et al. California 2022-04-19 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-waiver california-state-court contract-law contractual-rights court-inconsistency equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-standard waiver 1. WHETHER "PREJUDICE" TO THE PARTY OPPOSING ARBITRATION IS EVEN A FACTOR, LET ALONE THE DETERMINATIVE FACTOR, A CALIFORNIA STATE COURT OR ANY STATE O…
21-1334 Columbia Export Terminal, LLC v. International Longshore and Warehouse Union, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-07 Dismissed Response Waived arbitration arbitration-provisions collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction labor-management-relations-act labor-union lmra-preemption preemption rico rico-claims 1. Does § 301 of the LMRA preempt claims brought in federal court under federal statutes, like the RICO claims in this case? 2. In interpreting the a…
21-1335 Waleed Khalid Abu Al-Waleed Al Hood Al-Qarqani, et al. v. Saudi Arabian Oil Company Fifth Circuit 2022-04-07 Denied Response Waived arbitral-award arbitration cross-appeal foreign-sovereign-immunity jurisdictional-immunity new-york-convention sovereign-waiver united-nations-convention waiver 1. Whether a foreign sovereign or instrumentality of a state that is a signatory member of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement …
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 The Federal Arbitration Act Title 9 section 12 bars vacating or modifying award after three months. Is the petition or motion, when seeking confirmati…
21-1108 Enron Nigeria Power Holding, Limited v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response Waived arbitration burden-of-proof civil-procedure commercial-activity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law legal-immunity yacht-sale 1. Whether a foreign state that makes a legal claim to a yacht, participates extensively in the sale of the yacht, and stands to benefit financially f…
21-1028 International Energy Ventures Management, L.L.C. v. United Energy Group, Ltd. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure clear-error-standard deference fact-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure litigation-conduct rule-52a standard-of-review The district court in this case found, as a factual matter, that Respondent did not suffer prejudice from Petitioner's failure to immediately press it…
21-956 Sojourner Rudisill v. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-review arbitration civil-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction labor-law railway-labor-act Whether the Railway Labor Act ("RLA") permits courts to exercise jurisdiction over due process challenges to decisions rendered by RLA arbitration pan…
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 QUESTION #1: Does res judicata preclude a cause of action for conspiracy that arises after a Complaint was filed, but prior to that initial claim's di…
21-328 Robyn Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-01 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Relisted (2) arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle federal-courts litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-requirement state-courts waiver Waiver is the intentional relinquishment of a known right and, in the context of contracts, occurs when one party to a contract either explicitly repu…
21-5372 Jessica Graulau v. Credit One Bank, N.A. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied IFP arbitration arbitration-dispute civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection jury-trial subject-matter-jurisdiction telephone-consumer-protection-act Did Circuit Court of Appeal violated U.S. Const. Amend. XII enforced by Fed. R. 1. Civ. P. 38 & 39 after affirmed the District Court 's decision that …
21-208 Merrilee Stewart v. IHT Insurance Agency Group, LLC Welfare Benefits Plan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied affordable-care-act americans-with-disabilities-act arbitration civil-rights constitutional-protections disability-rights due-process employment-law erisa privacy Before an employee may have been deemed to have waived the comprehensive rights, remedies and procedural protections prescribed in civil rights statut…
21-111 NC Financial Solutions of Utah, LLC v. Virginia, ex rel. Mark R. Herring, Attorney General Virginia 2021-07-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-interpretation due-process federal-preemption individual-relief litigation-exception non-signatory standing state-attorney-general Whether a state attorney general who is not a signatory to an arbitration agreement may bring claims that are covered by the agreement and seek indivi…
20-1647 Valerie Haney v. Church of Scientology International, et al. California 2021-05-26 Denied Amici (1) arbitration arbitration-procedure civil-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-religion religious-arbitration religious-freedom Whether, under the First Amendment, a court may subject a person who has rejected the faith to participate in a religious "arbitration" where arbiters…
20-1564 James M. Perna v. Health One Credit Union, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts arbitration civil-rights due-process first-amendment forum-selection jurisdiction petition-clause sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether a grant of a writ of certiorari is warranted where, if left without review, the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth C…
20-1542 Michael Mogan v. Jeff Henry, et al. California 2021-05-05 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment arbitration attorney california-court due-process prevailing-party sanctions Whether a California Court is permitted to impose sanctions against an attorney without violating his rights to Due Process under the 5th and 14th Ame…
20-1475 Wesley Perkins v. John Mischtian, Judge, County Court at Law 2, Bell County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied arbitration civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-arbitration due-process jurisdictional-challenge probable-cause standing statutory-challenge transportation-code Statutory Challenge 1. Is the TEX. TRANSP. Code "unconstitutional," as applied? Referral, Roell, and Rule 4(m) 2. Was dismissal abusive? Post-dismis…
20-1273 Franek Olstowski v. Petroleum Analyzer Company, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied arbitration arbitration-award bankruptcy federal-court federal-procedure full-faith-and-credit judicial-proceeding state-court state-court-judgment trade-secret 1. Whether state-court judgments confirming arbitration awards, including state-court orders clarifying such judgments, are "judicial proceedings" ent…
20-1252 Stephen J. Simoni v. Jersey Shore University Medical Center, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied arbitration attorneys-fees circuit-court-interpretation civil-procedure federal-courts federal-labor-law labor-arbitration labor-law supreme-court-precedent union-rights United States Supreme Court precedent requires that union members be awarded attorneys' fees where the employer wrongfully blocked access to quick and…
20-1032 Petrobras America Incorporated, et al. v. Vantage Deepwater Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response Waived arbitral-award arbitration circuit-split de-novo-review enforcement international-conventions new-york-convention panama-convention public-policy standard-of-review The Panama Convention and the New York Convention authorize the courts of Contracti ng States to refuse enforcement of an arbitral award where enforce…
20-6855 Stacia O'Neil v. Marisa Berquist, et al. Massachusetts 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-review arbitration commercial-disputes due-process uniform-arbitration-act Whether The Supreme Court of the State of Massachusetts denied the Petitioner Due Process of Law under the 14th Amendment, when it denied a timely fil…
20-763 Ericka Richardson, et al. v. Coverall North America, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Relisted (2) adhesive-agreement arbitration clear-and-unmistakable delegation-of-arbitrability state-vs-federal-law unsophisticated-party 1. Whether incorporation by reference of a separate set of arbitration rules constitutes clear and unmistakable evidence of intent to delegate the thr…
20-642 Jorge Mendoza v. Uber Technologies Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-due-process constitutional-law contract-law dispute-resolution due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits legal-procedure procedural-rights Whether Constitutional Due Process can be part of Arbitration Jurisdiction.
20-299 Milliman, Inc. v. James J. Donelon, Commissioner of Insurance for Louisiana, in His Capacity as Rehabilitator of Louisiana Health Cooperative, Inc. Louisiana 2020-09-08 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitration contract-arbitration federal-arbitration-act forum-selection-clause insurance-insolvency insurance-regulation mccarran-ferguson-act preemption state-regulation Whether the Federal Arbitration Act (the "FAA") preempts the state's forum selection clause and requires the commissioner to arbitrate these pre-insol…
20-258 Alvin E. Medina v. Federal Aviation Administration Federal Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response Waived appeal appeal-rights arbitration arbitration-decision civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling judicial-review notice notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigant Alvin E Medina, the Petitioners, request this Petition for Writ of Certiorari be granted given the salient issue equitable tolling, and the constituti…
20-5541 Betsy Sachs v. Bank of America, N.A. First Circuit 2020-08-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arbitration attorney-conduct civil-rights debt-collection due-process fdcpa foreclosure judicial-procedure manifest-disregard WHETHER THE DEFINITION OF "DEBT COLLECTOR" UNDER THE FDCPA INCLUDES ATTORNEYS WHO SELECT NON-JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE AS THERE IS A SHARP SPLIT IN CIRCUIT…
20-238 Changzhou Sinotype Technology Co., Ltd. v. Rockefeller Technology Investments (Asia) VII California 2020-08-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award civil-procedure foreign-relations hague-service-convention international-litigation judicial-sovereignty jurisdiction postal-service service-of-process 1. whether a private litigant can, by agreement with its opponent, waive a foreign state's objection to service by postal channels in its territory un…
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 Petitioner Big Port Service DMCC ("BPS") was permanently enjoined from pursuing an arbitration against Respondent China Shipping Container Lines Co. L…
20-57 Maurice McGinnis, By His Conservator Derrick K. Jones v. Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. District of Columbia 2020-07-23 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-procedure civil-rights competency consent-order due-process equitable-jurisdiction guardian-ad-litem miscarriage-of-justice procedural-deadline Whether strict application of procedural deadlines by an Arbitrator under the guidelines of the Consent Order in Pigford v. Glickman, 185 F.R.D. 82 (D…
20-55 William A. Anderson v. American General Life Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied arbitration arbitration-defense contract-interpretation contract-law due-process evidence-falsification false-evidence judicial-misconduct officer-of-court officer-of-the-court 1. Is it a violation for an Arbitrator to assert a defense on behalf of a defendant of which the defendant did not request or present on their own beh…
20-5068 Li Qin v. Barbara Kong-Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment ada-protection arbitration arbitration-fraud civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-jurisdiction due-process fraud medical-malpractice rooker-feldman-doctrine Where is the jurisdiction in U.S.A. over a corruptive arbitration? In this most outrageous arbitration, a neutral arbitrator and the defendants' couns…
20-3 Terry Balvin v. Rain and Hail, LLC Eighth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-review appraised-production arbitration arbitration-authority crop-insurance federal-crop-insurance federal-crop-insurance-act good-farming-practices policy-interpretation statutory-rights The questions presented for the Supreme Court concern the authority of a private arbitrator in a crop insurance dispute, including whether a private a…
19-1419 Michael A. Henry-Bey v. Hector Castro, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeals appellate-procedure arbitration civil-procedure court-transfer due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review pro-se-litigant standing subject-matter-jurisdiction transfer Whether the court had federal question jurisdiction to hear the petitioner's appeal, and if not, should the court have transferred the appeal to the c…
19-1382 Sterling Jewelers, Inc. v. Laryssa Jock, et al. Second Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Amici (2) absent-class-members arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitrator-authority class-arbitration consent consent-requirement contract-interpretation due-process lamps-plus lamps-plus-v-varela stolt-nielsen stolt-nielsen-v-animalfeeds In Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds International Corp., 559 U.S. 662 (2010), this Court held that an arbitrator cannot compel class arbitration if t…
19-1336 The National Retirement Fund, et al. v. Metz Culinary Management, Inc. Second Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actuarial-assumptions arbitration best-estimate employee-retirement-income-security-act-erisa erisa measurement-date multiemployer-pension-plan statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability Whether ERISA prohibits multiemployer pension plan actuaries from selecting actuarial assumptions to calculate withdrawal liability, after the Measure…
19-1333 Monster Energy Company, fka Hansen Beverage Company v. City Beverages LLC, dba Olympic Eagle Distributing Ninth Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-awards bias circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirements disclosure-rule evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-standard standard standard-of-review 1. What is the standard for determining whether an arbitration award must be vacated for "evident partiality" under the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S…
19-1165 Chuck Willis v. Tower Loan of Mississippi, LLC Fifth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitrator-selection baseline-intent-to-arbitrate circuit-split contract-formation contract-interpretation definite-agreement gorsuch-dissent intent-to-arbitrate meeting-of-minds meeting-of-the-minds standard-of-review In Ragab v. Howard, 841 F.3d 1134 (10th Cir. 2016), the Tenth Circuit determined that two parties did not have a meeting of the minds with respect to …
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 California law authorizes plaintiffs asserting a claim under the State's consumer-protection laws to seek "public injunctive relief'—which it defines …
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 Question-1: Whether the Supreme Court should grant the judgment for the violation of SEC Heitman Capital No Action Letter in UBS MAC wrap-fee investme…
19-944 Scott A. Seldin v. Theodore M. Seldin, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response Waived arbitration civil-procedure functus-officio jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar law-of-the-case mandate-rule rule-of-mandate statutory-interpretation trust-accounting 1. Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of a narrow statutory trust accounting action, which was based on fi…
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 at the time of the issues in dispute in arbitration, or contemporaneous with the time…
19-761 KT Corporation, et al. v. ABS Holdings, Ltd., et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-awards contract contract-disputes due-process due-process-standards enforcement-actions foreign-government foreign-law-enforcement international-comity satellite-dispute tribunal-mandate Does the doctrine of international comity bar our courts from enforcing arbitration awards that are based on a tribunal's conclusion – in excess of it…
19-712 Hamp's Construction, LLC v. Inland Marine Services, L.L.C. Louisiana 2019-12-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-law civil-procedure due-process federal-courts industrial-justice judicial-review manifest-disregard statutory-interpretation statutory-law vacatur 1. Is "manifest disregard of the law" still a valid basis to vacate or modify an arbitrator's award? 2. Did the arbitrator in this case manifestly di…
19-637 Emma Serna v. Margette Webster, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration arbitration-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights contract-dispute default-judgments deprivation-of-rights due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure mandamus misconduct standing state-court-jurisdiction STATE: Mandate granted to the Serna Party filed on March, 2014 needs a writ of mandamus issued to obtain a written judgment to execute, which has mon…
19-6338 Gerald Nelson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitration arbitration-award back-pay back-pay-settlement civil-rights due-process gross-income gross-income-taxation section-1983 tax tax-law tax-liability unemployment unemployment-benefits 1. 26 U.S.C 61 (a) , defines Gross income means all income from whatever source derived. Question: If gross income ,includes back pay settlements that…
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 Where an arbitration agreement contains a separate "delegation provision" that reserves for an arbitrator the authority to decide any disputes concern…
19-301 Republic of Kazakhstan v. Anatolie Stati, et al. District of Columbia 2019-09-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration civil-procedure confirmation-proceeding due-process foreign-arbitral-award foreign-arbitral-awards foreign-sovereign-immunity fraud fraud-defense new-york-convention public-policy sovereign-immunity Exercising a right guaranteed to it by the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, th e Republic of Kazakhs…
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 The Texas Structured Settlement Protection Act, TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE §§ 141.001 et. seq. (the "Texas SSPA"), specifically Section 141.004, mand…
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 In AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, this Court reiterated that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) requires courts to "place arbitration agreements on a…
18-1242 Endre' Glenn v. Nordic Services, Inc. Washington 2019-03-25 Denied arbitration arbitration-procedure due-process equal-protection material-evidence material-testimony reasonable-opportunity reasonable-opportunity-to-prepare subpoena subpoena-duces-tecum washington-state-law Whether a contractor and subcontractor violated homeowner's rights to due process when they ignored subpoena duces tecum, and failed to comply with ar…
18-8509 Towaki Komatsu v. NTT Data, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration arbitration-impossibility civil-procedure civil-rights contractor-misclassification due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-jurisdiction financial-impossibility rooker-feldman-doctrine standing supplemental-jurisdiction younger-abstention younger-abstention-doctrine Since the following is entirely true and accurate, how may it be credibly claimed that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit didn't substan…
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 1. Whether the FAA preempts a conflicting state anti-SLAPP statute and precludes a state court from refusing either to compel arbitration or to stay l…
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 1) 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 (2…
18-7907 John Hassan v. Lawrence K. Marks, Chief Administrative Judge, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitration civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct property-dispute property-rights standing state-court-proceeding takings Question not identified.
18-7925 Syed Nazim Ali v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied IFP arbitration arbitration-immunity civil-rights corporate-representation due-process fair-hearing finra-arbitration immunity legal-standing pro-se-representation small-business small-corporation sole-owner Whether FINRA Arbitration process violated the Petitioner's rights of due process of law by failing to be fair and using the arbitration immunity to s…
18-1029 Sujit Ghosh v. DISH Network L.L.C. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-process arbitration-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial non-party non-party-participation party personal-guaranty standing Can a "Non-Party" of an Arbitration Process get equal Privileges and Rights like a "Party" as per the laws of the United States and its Constitution, …
18-1025 Lillie Leon v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law arbitration arbitration-decision arbitration-hearing civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process hall-street-assoc-v-mattel legal-preclusion res-judicata standard-of-review Petitioner testified and submitted evidence during a 3-day 3020-a hearing, wherein the Arbitrator, Felice Busto rejected material evidence from Petiti…
18-7618 David S. Neal v. ASTA Funding, Inc. Third Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP alternative-theories arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure condition-precedent contract contract-law dispute-resolution due-process non-parties non-party-enforcement standing Can non-parties to a contract with an arbitration provision be compelled to arbitrate based on alternative theories when the contractual condition pre…
18-976 Association of American Railroads v. Department of Transportation, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-28 Denied Amici (1) arbitration arbitration-provision due-process government-corporation industry-regulation regulatory-authority rulemaking rulemaking-power self-interested-actor separation-of-powers 1. Whether PRIIA § 207 violates due process and the separation of powers by permitting regulatory authority to be exercised by a for-profit government…
18-960 Nationwide Biweekly Administration, Inc. v. BMO Harris Bank, N.A. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1367 arbitration arbitration-agreement article-iii article-three case-or-controversy civil-procedure federal-court supplemental-jurisdiction third-party third-party-complaint 1. Whether a plaintiff loses their right to have all claims that form part of the same case or controversy under Article III of the United States Cons…
18-850 David Altstatt, Sr. v. Melinda Fruendt, Executive Director, Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response Waived arbitration blind-vendors compensatory-damages eleventh-amendment randolph-sheppard-act sovereign-immunity When States voluntarily choose to participate under the Randolph Sheppard Act, and consent to arbitration of blind vendors' grievances, do the states …
18-7014 Muriel Collins v. Alan B. Epstein, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied IFP arbitration arbitration-hearing civil-rights code-of-conduct criminal-justice due-process employment employment-dispute last-chance-agreement retaliation termination termination-procedures whistleblower workplace-discrimination wrongful-termination Why was Plaintiff issued disciplinary actions for following Defendants Kimberly-Clark Chester PA LLC. And Kimberly-Clark Corp. Code of Conduct and abs…
18-703 University of Southern California, et al. v. Allen L. Munro, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Amici (1) arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-scope erisa erisa-arbitration-agreement erisa-claims erisa-fiduciary-duty erisa-plan-participant fiduciary-duty plan-participant standing statutory-interpretation trust Whether an agreement to arbitrate "all claims" that an ERISA plan participant "may have" against a plan fiduciary encompasses a breach-of-fiduciary-du…
18-618 Dolores Gutierrez, et al. v. Wells Fargo Bank, NA, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied arbitration civil-procedure class-action dispute-resolution due-process efficient-dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act litigation-tactics procedural-strategy standing Is the Federal Arbitration Act's goal of "providing efficient streamlined procedures tailored to the type of dispute," AT&T Mobility, LLC v. Concepcio…
18-580 Nu Image, Inc. v. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied arbitration collective-bargaining-agreement declaratory-relief fraud fraud-claims intentional-misrepresentation labor-management-relations-act negligent-misrepresentation subject-matter-jurisdiction textron-lycoming Do federal courts have subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to Section 301(a) of the Labor Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 185(a) over a complai…
18-6340 Kevin Williams v. Eric Safire, et al. California 2018-10-16 Denied IFP arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure civil-rights contract court-of-appeal due-process involuntary-dismissal standing statutory-protection trial-by-jury Question not identified.
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 Did the Appeals Court Err or Violate Petitioner's First Amendment Right to Petition the Courts by Failing to Issue a Writ of Mandamus for Reversing th…
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 "Congress adopted the [Federal] Arbitration Act in 1925" because "courts were unduly hostile to arbitration." Epic Sys. Corp. v. Lewis, 138 S. Ct. 161…
18-33 Subway Sandwich Shops, Inc. v. David Moshe Rahmany, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-agreement arthur-andersen circuit-split civil-procedure contract-enforcement equitable-estoppel federal-doctrine federal-equitable-estoppel federal-policy-arbitration ninth-circuit non-signatory standing Whether this Court's decision in Arthur Andersen LLP v. Carlisle, 556 U.S. 624 (2009), eliminated the federal equitable estoppel doctrine.