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25A797 In Re James De Los Santos Fifth Circuit 2026-01-09 Denied arbitrability arbitration-agreement first-options judicial-review non-delegable-formation post-award-review Question not identified.
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 Denied 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.
25-585 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 …
25-549 Russian Federation v. Hulley Enterprises Ltd., et al. District of Columbia 2025-11-05 Denied arbitration-agreement court-procedure foreign-state-immunity international-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation "A foreign state shall not be immune from the jurisdiction" of a United States court where "the action is brought ... to confirm an award made pursuan…
25-26 Berkeley County School District v. Hub International Limited, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-09 Denied Response Waived arbitrability arbitration-agreement contract-termination delegation-clause dispute-resolution jurisdiction Where parties enter into an agreement which expressly terminates on a date certain, and which contains an arbitration provision with a delegation clau…
24-1266 Jump Trading, LLC v. Nick Patterson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-12 Denied Amici (2) arbitration-agreement circuit-split delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act gateway-arbitrability nonsignatory Where an arbitration agreement contains a provision delegating to the arbitrator gateway questions of arbitrability, must a court leave for the arbitr…
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…
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 1. Whether the FAA protects all arbitration agreements (as this Court and five circuits have stated) or only a subset of traditional, bilateral arbitr…
24-1007 Thomas J. Ayers v. Joseph Markiewicz, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement breach-of-contract constitutional-rights due-process fiduciary-duty tortious-interference On June 16, 2022, Petitioner requested dispute resolution under LTD / Amway Agreement Sections 20 and 11.4, seeking mediation to address ongoing fraud…
24A822 Kingdom of Spain v. Blasket Renewable Investments LLC, et al. District of Columbia 2025-02-25 Presumed Complete arbitration-agreement arbitration-exception energy-charter-treaty foreign-sovereign-immunities-act forum-non-conveniens subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
24-532 Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Ltd. District of Columbia 2024-11-12 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived arbitration-agreement extratextual-context international-law new-york-convention sovereign-immunity treaty-interpretation (1) Whether, for interpreting the intentions of the treaty parties regarding a word like "person," extratextual information such as historical context…
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.
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 1. Whether the FAA preempts state law contract statutes and regulations by singling out for disfavored treatment arbitration agreements entered into b…
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 1. This case presents an important question concerning the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). In Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana, 596 U.S. 639 (2022…
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 In Viking River Cruises v. Moriana , this Court held that state law cannot obstruct enforcement of agreements for individualized arbitration by combin…
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 Question not identified.
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 Respectfully Mrs. Graulau is addressing the following questions over each of two issues heard and decided by lower tribunals as a single whole case f…
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 authorizing public officials to pursue claims for individualized monetary relief in court for t…
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 …
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 Question not identified.
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…
23-795 Gregory Abelar, et al. v. International Business Machines Corporation Second Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements circuit-split eeoc-filing eeoc-filing-requirements employment-law gilmer-v-interstate-johnson-lane substantive-rights The question presented in this Petition is whether an arbitration agreement can be used to bar an employee from pursuing a claim under the Age Discrim…
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 This case involves the preemptive effect of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) on state-law employment claims brought under California's Private Attorn…
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 1. What does 28 U.S. Code § 2284 mandate regarding the composition of a district court when an action challenges the constitutionality of a federal la…
23A575 Elizabeth Stafford v. International Business Machines Corporation Second Circuit 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete age-discrimination arbitration-agreement confidentiality employment-law first-amendment public-access Question not identified.
23-661 Tug Hill Operating, LLC v. Lastephen Rogers Fourth Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitrability arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements circuit-split contract-interpretation delegation-doctrine delegation-of-arbitrability gateway-questions nonsignatories nonsignatory third-party-beneficiary When an arbitration agreement delegates gateway questions of arbitrability to the arbitrator, may a court still interpret the agreement for itself to …
23A480 HomeServices of America, Inc., et al. v. Scott Burnett, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete aaa-rules arbitration-agreement contract-law delegation-provision non-signatory threshold-arbitrability Question not identified.
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 This case involves the preemptive effect of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., on state-law claims brought under California's Pr…
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 Question not identified.
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 Where Respondent Sprint Corporation filed a motion for arbitration in Hawaii state court pursuant to the Hawaii arbitration statute, and the Hawaii St…
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…
23-269 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 1. Does the Eastern Associated Coal Corp. v. United Mine Workers , 531 U.S. 57, 62 (2000) holding that an arbitrator's "serious error does not suffice…
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 …
22-1237 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 1. Whether the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1, et seq. ("FAA"), pursuant to Article VI of the United States Constitution ("Supremacy Clause"), …
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…
22-968 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 1. When there is a valid and enforceable agreement to arbitrate, and the dispute is within the scope of the arbitration agreement, does the FAA preemp…
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…
22-280 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…
22-230 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…
22-102 John Doe, et al. v. Airbnb, Inc. Florida 2022-08-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitrability arbitration-agreement clear-and-unmistakable clear-and-unmistakable-evidence contract-interpretation dispute-resolution first-options-v-kaplan presumption procedural-rules If a form arbitration agreement provides that an arbitration, if it occurs, will be administered using a particular set of procedural rules, and those…
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, in light of Viking River Cruises, a mutual pre-dispute agreement to arbitrate all claims arising from the employment relationship is enforcea…
22-60 Church of Scientology International, et al. v. Chrissie Carnell Bixler, et al. California 2022-07-21 Denied Amici (5)Response Waived arbitration-agreement church-membership civil-procedure establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise freedom-of-religion religious-arbitration Where a parishioner freely executes a religious arbitration agreement with her church, does the First Amendment prohibit enforcement of the agreement …
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 I. Whether the West Virginia Court's determination that the parties' arbitration agreement is invalid and unenforceable because "it fails to 'comply …
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…
21-1307 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…
21-1244 Beijing Shougang Mining Investment Company, Ltd., et al. v. Mongolia Second Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitrability arbitration-agreement bilateral-investment-treaty civil-procedure de-novo-review first-options-doctrine first-options-v-kaplan judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-objections Whether, as the Second Circuit held, participating in arbitration—including agreeing to a scheduling order as to the timing of jurisdictional objectio…
21-1138 Sherry Treppa, et al. v. George Hengle, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied arbitration-agreement arbitration-clause choice-of-law delegation-clause official-capacity sovereign-immunity state-law tribal-government tribal-officials 1. Whether a court can invalidate an agreement to have an arbitrator resolve questions of arbitrability (a "delegation clause") based on the court's i…
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…
21-1097 Vinod Kumar Dahiya v. Neptune Shipmanagement Services, PTE, Limited, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied arbitration-agreement compelled-arbitration foreign-arbitration foreign-award interlocutory-order judicial-review jurisdictional-defect new-york-convention preclusive-effect Relying on a minority view of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (New York Convention) definition of an arbi…
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…
21-196 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 The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) requires courts "to put arbitration agreements on an equal plane with other contracts." Kindred Nursing Ctrs. Ltd. P…
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…
21-106 Audrey L. Kimner v. Berkeley County, South Carolina Ninth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement civil-rights contract-forgery due-process federal-crimes federal-jurisdiction fraud judicial-misconduct jurisdiction procedural-due-process 1. Whether the California Federal Courts ignored the federal laws concerning a public official forging her name on petitioners house contract involvin…
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, under which agreements for individualized arbitration are invalidated when a plaintiff seeks public injunctive relief, pr…
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 Notwithstanding the express holding of this Court in Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela, 139 S. Ct. 1407, 1417 (2019) ("Lamps Plus") that the Federal Arbitrat…
20-1724 David James Murphy v. Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., et al. New York 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) arbitrability arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-law cross-motion delegation-clause motion-to-dismiss res-judicata (1) There is an arbitration agreement and it contains a delegation clause. Respondents argued that Petitioner's claims are subject to arbitration, und…
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 This Court has repeatedly held that the Federal Arbitration Act "protect[s]" agreements "to use individualized rather than class or collective action …
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 1. The parties' arbitration clause expressly designates the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") as their default dispute-resolution method. The c…
20-829 WasteCare Corporation v. Harmony Enterprises, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response Waived arbitrability arbitration-agreement arbitration-rules carve-out circuit-split contract-interpretation delegation delegation-doctrine exempt-claims Whether an arbitration agreement that expressly carves out specific claims to be exempt from the provision clearly and unmistakably delegates arbitrab…
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 1. Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts state Supersedeas law? Does this state law conflict with the FAA? 2. Whether the Federal 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 …
20-40 CATIC USA Incorporated v. Soaring Wind Energy, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied arbitral-award arbitration-agreement arbitration-jurisdiction commercial-arbitration due-process international-treaty jurisdiction new-york-convention us-activities us-citizens 1. The Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, commonly referred to as the "New York Convention," is an internationa…
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 1. Petitioners are foreign corporations that did not sign the arbitration agreement signed by an affiliated entity, did not consent to arbitration, an…
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…
19-1187 Matco Tools Corporation, et al. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-validity district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction forum-non-conveniens forum-selection-clause ninth-circuit-rule procedural-exception subject-matter Courts adjudicating forum non conveniens motions seeking to enforce forum-selection clauses as a general rule do not consider whether the underlying c…
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 …
19-1080 Archer and White Sales, Inc. v. Henry Schein, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) arbitrability arbitration-agreement carve-out court-determination delegation equitable-estoppel nonsignatory Whether an arbitration agreement that makes no mention of delegation "clearly and unmistakably" delegates arbitrability with respect to actions that t…
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 1. Does the FINRA Industry Code supply the terms of the arbitration agreement governing a mandatory arbitration between a member (such as Ameriprise) …
19-963 Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer and White Sales, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-31 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) 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 on the ground that it …
19-788 Erin Daly v. Citigroup, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response Waived arbitration-agreement blacklisting dodd-frank employment-law finra-form-u-5 retaliation sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act sec-violations whistleblower-protection 1. Whether the provisions under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as amended by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 protect whi…
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 1. Does the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the "New York Convention") permit a nonsignatory to an arbitrati…
19-606 Ukraine v. Pao Tatneft District of Columbia 2019-11-12 Denied arbitration-agreement arbitration-enforcement arbitration-exception foreign-sovereign-immunity international-arbitration new-york-convention sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-exception Whether the D.C. Circuit correctly held that: (1) all 160 signatories to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards …
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…
19-180 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 1. Did the appellate court err by ignoring Henry Schein, Inc., et al. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc., 139 S. Ct. 524 (U.S. Jan. 8, 2019) and barring ar…
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 …
18-1308 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 1. Whether the Federal Arbitration Act prohibits courts from relabeling a state law contract challenge as relating to contract formation, as opposed t…
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…
18-1048 GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS, Corp., fka Converteam SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-11 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration-agreement circuit-split contract-law equitable-estoppel foreign-arbitral-awards international-arbitration new-york-convention non-signatory treaty-interpretation Whether the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the "New York Convention") permits a non-signatory to an arbitra…
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…
18-960 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…
18-951 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 this Court should grant Petitioner's certiorari for because the Supreme Court of Texas denied Petitioner's Petition For Review and Motion For …
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 This case involves the cost-sharing provision of an arbitration agreement. Executed as part of a contract to buy a restaurant, the agreement provides …
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…
18-811 JPay, Inc. v. Cynthia Kobel, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitrability arbitrability-delegation arbitration-agreement class-arbitration contract-interpretation contractual-language dispute-resolution oxford-health-plans parties-intentions presumption stolt-nielsen stolt-nielsen-presumption May courts presume parties intended to let an arbitrator decide if class arbitration is available when they "simply agree[d] to submit" disputes over …
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…
18-617 Spirit Airlines, Inc. v. Steven Maizes, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitrability arbitration-agreement bilateral-arbitration burden-of-proof class-arbitration delegation delegation-doctrine standard-arbitration-rules standard-of-review 1. Must a party overcome a higher burden to show that an arbitration agreement delegates to the arbitrator the power to decide the availability of cla…
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.
18-175 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 1. Whether a general choice-of-law clause in a contract that contains an arbitration agreement should be read, consistent with the Federal 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 "Congress adopted the [Federal] Arbitration Act in 1925" because "courts were unduly hostile to arbitration." Epic Sys. Corp. v. Lewis, 138 S. Ct. 161…
18-159 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…
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.