The decision resolved a circuit split over a 1988 amendment to the Federal Arbitration Act. The amendment permits interlocutory review of trial court decisions denying defense motions to compel ...

The spearhead high court decision holding that valid arbitration clauses preemptively trump lawsuits—even class actions where the arbitration clause contains a class action waiver—is AT&T ...

The Court didn’t need to issue any more arbitration decisions. Two reports issued at the end of last year show how effective the Court’s arbitration rulings have been.

But this week, the Supreme Court reached back to the past and ruled the 1925 pro-arbitration law can override the rights of workers to sue in court or bring joint claims in arbitration.

The Federal Arbitration Act of 1925, the statute the Court relies on in forced arbitration cases, explicitly exempts “workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce.” But, in Circuit City v.

This term, the United States Supreme Court has heard arguments on three major arbitration law cases. The pending decisions carry far-reaching consequences for practitioners in employment law ...

In earlier cases, the court has linked its equal-footing rule to what it has termed the FAA’s “liberal federal policy favoring arbitration.” In this case, Sundance argued that the pro-arbitration ...

The current Supreme Court is undoubtedly pro-arbitration – but after Monday’s oral argument in Morgan v.Sundance, it appeared that it might nonetheless conclude that a party can lose the right to ...