AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion

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

First Options of Chi., Inc. v. Kaplan

Holding that a circuit court reviewing a district court's disposition of an arbitration award should apply "ordinary, not special, standards."

AT&T Techs., Inc. v. Commc'ns Workers of Am.

Holding that it was for the court to decide whether a particular labor dispute fell within the arbitration clause of a collective-bargaining agreement

Mitsubishi Motors v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth

Holding that the Act emphatically favors arbitration

Mastrobuono v. Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc.

Holding that courts should be guided by the “cardinal principle of contract construction: that a document should be read to give effect to all of its provisions and to render them consistent with each other”

Armendariz v. Foundation Health Psychcare Services, Inc.

Holding unilateral arbitration provision substantively unconscionable

Iskanian v. CSL Transportation Los Angeles, LLC

Holding that arbitration provisions banning class-action litigation or collective arbitration of employment-related claims are enforceable under the NLRA and the FAA's saving clause, but also holding that arbitration provisions banning representative claims under California's Private Attorneys General Act violates that Act

Engalla v. Permanente Med. Grp., Inc.

Holding that a party's "course of delay" in performing the terms of the contract, when "unreasonable or undertaken in bad faith, may provide sufficient grounds" for a finding of waiver

Moncharsh v. Heily Blase

Holding that "a party [who] is claiming the entire contract is illegal, or the arbitration agreement itself is illegal" must "raise the illegality question prior to participating in the arbitration process"

Saint Agnes Medical Center v. PacifiCare of California

Holding the prejudice results from a party's expenditure on defending against motions that reflect a position on arbitrability

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

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

Section 1194 - Recovery by employee in civil action regardless of agreement to receive lesser wage

Authorizing an employee receiving less than the legal overtime compensation to recover the unpaid balance, interest, attorney's fees, and costs of suit in a civil action

Section 2698 - Title of part

Section 1281.2 - Grounds for not ordering parties to arbitrate controversy

Stating that an order compelling arbitration “may not be refused on the ground that the petitioner's contentions lack substantive merit”

Section 1281 - Generally

Explaining an arbitration agreement may only be invalidated upon the same "grounds as exist for the revocation of any contract"

Section 1401 - Prerequisite to admission

Requiring authentication of a "writing"

Section 229 - Arbitration agreements

Barring enforcement of agreements to arbitrate wage claims

Section 2804 - Contract waiving benefits of article null and void

Providing that any agreement made by an employee to waive his or her right to expense reimbursement is and void

Section 206.5 - Execution of a release

Providing that employers and employees may not enter into agreements that waive the employee's right to receive wages

Section 219 - Effect of private agreements; payment for unused leave

Prohibiting agreements that attempt to circumvent the requirements of the Labor Code

Rule 3.770 - Dismissal of class actions