AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion

Holding that a ban on collective-action waivers in those contracts worked to "disfavor arbitration"

Moses H. Cone Hosp. v. Mercury Constr. Corp.

Holding stay order appealable under § 1291 where it put the litigant "effectively out of court," and "surrender[ed] jurisdiction of a federal suit to a state court"

Mitsubishi Motors v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth

Holding that the Act emphatically favors arbitration

Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corp.

Holding that a claim arising under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq. (1994 ed.), may be subject to compulsory arbitration

EPIC Sys. Corp. v. Lewis

Holding that, under Concepcion , "courts may not allow a contract defense to reshape traditional individualized arbitration" and "a rule seeking to declare individualized arbitration proceedings off limits" is preempted by the FAA

Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams

Holding that the phrase "any other class of workers engaged in ... commerce," following the specific examples of seamen and railroad employees, includes only "transportation workers," because construing it to include all other workers "fails to give independent effect to the statute’s enumeration of the specific categories of workers" that precede it

Equal Emp't Opportunity Comm'n v. Waffle House, Inc.

Holding that a private arbitration agreement between an employee and an employer could not bind a nonparty governmental agency, the EEOC, and thus that the agreement—which was enforceable against the employee under the Federal Arbitration Act—did not limit the types of remedies the agency could seek in an enforcement action it initiated under Title VII

Southland Corp. v. Keating

Holding that through the FAA, "Congress intended to foreclose state legislative attempts to undercut the enforceability of arbitration agreements"

Compucredit Corp. v. Greenwood

Holding that contract “parties remain free to specify” their choice of judicial forum “so long as the guarantee ” of the Act “is preserved.”

KPMG LLP v. Cocchi

Holding that the FAA has been “interpreted to require that if a dispute presents multiple claims, some arbitrable and some not, the former must be sent to arbitration even if this will lead to piecemeal litigation”

Section 2 - Validity, irrevocability, and enforcement of agreements to arbitrate

Granting federal jurisdiction where there is "a transaction involving [interstate] commerce"

Section 157 - Right of employees as to organization, collective bargaining, etc.

Granting employees the right to engage in or refrain from engaging in union activity

Section 500.11 - Alternative procedure for selected appeals