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Memorandum Points and Authorities

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33 Cited authorities

  1. 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"

  2. Rent-A-Ctr. v. Jackson

    561 U.S. 63 (2010)   Cited 2,765 times   65 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "an arbitration provision is severable from the remainder of the contract," even where the contract containing the arbitration provision is itself an arbitration agreement (quoting Buckeye , 546 U.S. at 445, 126 S.Ct. 1204 )

  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. Buckeye Check Cashing v. Cardegna

    546 U.S. 440 (2006)   Cited 2,047 times   34 Legal Analyses
    Holding that nothing necessarily prevents a court from finding an arbitration clause unenforceable in a contract that it later finds is enforceable

  6. 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

  7. Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc.

    139 S. Ct. 524 (2019)   Cited 1,192 times   41 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "a court possesses no power to decide the arbitrability issue" if "the parties' contract delegates the arbitrability question to an arbitrator"

  8. Volt Info. Scis., Inc. v. Bd. of Trs.

    489 U.S. 468 (1989)   Cited 3,270 times   16 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the Federal Arbitration Act requires courts to enforce arbitration agreements according to their terms, including where the parties "specify by contract the rules under which arbitration will be conducted"

  9. EPIC Sys. Corp. v. Lewis

    138 S. Ct. 1612 (2018)   Cited 959 times   169 Legal Analyses
    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

  10. Doctor's Assocs., Inc. v. Casarotto

    517 U.S. 681 (1996)   Cited 1,900 times   13 Legal Analyses
    Holding "that Montana's first-page notice requirement, which governs not ‘any contract,’ but specifically and solely contracts ‘subject to arbitration,’ conflicts with the FAA and is therefore displaced by the federal measure."

  11. 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

  12. 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"

  13. 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"

  14. 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