517 U.S. 681 (1996) Cited 1,857 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."
532 U.S. 105 (2001) Cited 1,529 times 51 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
482 U.S. 483 (1987) Cited 1,330 times 14 Legal Analyses
Holding that the FAA preempted a state statute permitting litigation of wage collection actions despite the existence of a private agreement to arbitrate
388 U.S. 395 (1967) Cited 2,944 times 21 Legal Analyses
Holding that courts are the proper forum to evaluate a challenge to the validity of an arbitration clause, but that where the entire agreement of which an arbitration clause is but a part is challenged, such evaluation is properly left to the arbitrator
552 U.S. 346 (2008) Cited 573 times 18 Legal Analyses
Holding that the FAA preempted a California law giving a state agency primary jurisdiction over a dispute involving the California Talent Agency Act despite the parties' agreement to arbitrate such disputes
565 U.S. 530 (2012) Cited 348 times 34 Legal Analyses
Holding that West Virginia's prohibition against predispute agreements to arbitrate personal-injury or wrongful-death claims against nursing homes was preempted by the FAA