14 Cited authorities

  1. AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion

    563 U.S. 333 (2011)   Cited 3,740 times   601 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a ban on collective-action waivers in those contracts worked to "disfavor arbitration"
  2. Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. Animalfeeds Intr.

    559 U.S. 662 (2010)   Cited 1,666 times   210 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a prudential ripeness argument was waived
  3. Mitsubishi Motors v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth

    473 U.S. 614 (1985)   Cited 4,220 times   44 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the Act emphatically favors arbitration
  4. Doctor's Assocs., Inc. v. Casarotto

    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."
  5. Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams

    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
  6. Perry v. Thomas

    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
  7. Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co.

    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
  8. Preston v. Ferrer

    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
  9. Marmet Health Care Ctr., Inc. v. Brown

    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
  10. Armendariz v. Foundation Health Psychcare Services, Inc.

    24 Cal.4th 83 (Cal. 2000)   Cited 1,738 times   44 Legal Analyses
    Holding unilateral arbitration provision substantively unconscionable