Steelworkers v. Warrior Gulf Co.

Holding that grievance machinery “is at the very heart of the system of industrial self-government” and the courts should not deny an order to arbitrate “unless it may be said with positive assurance that the arbitration clause is not susceptible of an interpretation that covers the asserted dispute”

Steelworkers v. Enterprise Corp.

Holding that a reviewing court should not refuse to enforce an arbitral award merely because it would read the collective bargaining agreement differently than the arbitrator

Steelworkers v. Am. Mfg. Co.

Holding that because the parties bargained for the “arbitrator's judgment,” the underlying “question of contract interpretation” is for the arbitrator, and the courts have “no business weighing the merits of the grievance”

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"

Discover Bank v. Superior Court

Holding that, under some circumstances, class action waivers in consumer arbitration agreements are unconscionable

Broughton v. Cigna Healthplans of California

Holding that a claim for public injunctive relief under California's Consumer Legal Remedies Act (CLRA) is not arbitrable, although damages claims under the CLRA are arbitrable

Coast Plaza Doctors Hospital v. Blue Cross of California

Holding claim for negligent interference with prospective economic advantage and other tort and statutory claims constituted disputes "arising under" the parties' agreement where those claims "center[ed] around and [were] clearly based upon" terms in the agreement and were "inextricably related to [the agreement's] terms and provisions"

Nyulassy v. Lockheed Martin Corp.

Holding that provision in arbitration agreement imposing 180-day limitation period was substantively unconscionable

Board of Education v. Round Valley Teachers Assn

Approving Fontana's refusal to compel arbitration in light of Government Code section 3543.2, subdivision's “general intent to exclude the procedures governing the reelection of probationary teachers as a proper subject of collective bargaining”

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