38 Cited authorities

  1. AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion

    563 U.S. 333 (2011)   Cited 3,908 times   602 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a ban on collective-action waivers in those contracts worked to "disfavor arbitration"
  2. Moses H. Cone Hosp. v. Mercury Constr. Corp.

    460 U.S. 1 (1983)   Cited 12,150 times   49 Legal Analyses
    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"
  3. First Options of Chi., Inc. v. Kaplan

    514 U.S. 938 (1995)   Cited 5,535 times   48 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a circuit court reviewing a district court's disposition of an arbitration award should apply "ordinary, not special, standards."
  4. AT&T Techs., Inc. v. Commc'ns Workers of Am.

    475 U.S. 643 (1986)   Cited 5,474 times   24 Legal Analyses
    Holding that it was for the court to decide whether a particular labor dispute fell within the arbitration clause of a collective-bargaining agreement
  5. Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. Animalfeeds Intr.

    559 U.S. 662 (2010)   Cited 1,706 times   211 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a prudential ripeness argument was waived
  6. Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corp.

    500 U.S. 20 (1991)   Cited 3,065 times   59 Legal Analyses
    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
  7. Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. v. Byrd

    470 U.S. 213 (1985)   Cited 3,405 times   21 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the word "shall" in a separate section of the FAA constituted a mandate to the district court
  8. Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams

    532 U.S. 105 (2001)   Cited 1,582 times   52 Legal Analyses
    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
  9. Am. Express Co. v. Italian Colors Rest.

    570 U.S. 228 (2013)   Cited 675 times   31 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a class waiver in an arbitration agreement is enforceable under the FAA even when a plaintiff shows that the waiver will prevent her from vindicating her statutory rights
  10. Chiron Corp. v. Ortho Diagnostic Sys.

    207 F.3d 1126 (9th Cir. 2000)   Cited 1,257 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "district court correctly found that the federal law of arbitrability under the FAA governs the allocation of authority between courts and arbitrators" despite arbitration agreement's choice-of-law provision
  11. Rule 5 - Serving and Filing Pleadings and Other Papers

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 5   Cited 23,068 times   16 Legal Analyses
    Allowing service by filing papers with the court's electronic-filing system
  12. Section 201 - Short title

    29 U.S.C. § 201   Cited 21,367 times   104 Legal Analyses
    Setting fourteen as the minimum age for most non-agricultural work
  13. Section 216 - Penalties

    29 U.S.C. § 216   Cited 16,779 times   143 Legal Analyses
    Holding employers liable for “unpaid minimum wages, or their unpaid overtime compensation”
  14. Section 1 - "Maritime transactions" and "commerce" defined; exceptions to operation of title

    9 U.S.C. § 1   Cited 12,171 times   211 Legal Analyses
    Defining the word "commerce" in the language of the Commerce Clause itself
  15. Section 2 - Validity, irrevocability, and enforcement of agreements to arbitrate

    9 U.S.C. § 2   Cited 11,219 times   120 Legal Analyses
    Granting federal jurisdiction where there is "a transaction involving [interstate] commerce"
  16. Section 3 - Stay of proceedings where issue therein referable to arbitration

    9 U.S.C. § 3   Cited 7,284 times   37 Legal Analyses
    Providing for a stay of judicial proceedings on "issue referable to arbitration"
  17. Section 4 - Failure to arbitrate under agreement; petition to United States court having jurisdiction for order to compel arbitration; notice and service thereof; hearing and determination

    9 U.S.C. § 4   Cited 6,584 times   33 Legal Analyses
    Granting authority to federal courts to compel party to participate in arbitration where a valid arbitration agreement exists