AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion

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

Moses H. Cone Hosp. v. Mercury Constr. Corp.

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"

Green Tree Fin. Corp.-Ala. v. Randolph

Holding that claims under the Truth in Lending Act are arbitrable

Mitsubishi Motors v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth

Holding that the Act emphatically favors arbitration

Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corp.

Holding that a claim arising under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq. (1994 ed.), may be subject to compulsory arbitration

Equal Emp't Opportunity Comm'n v. Waffle House, Inc.

Holding that a private arbitration agreement between an employee and an employer could not bind a nonparty governmental agency, the EEOC, and thus that the agreement—which was enforceable against the employee under the Federal Arbitration Act—did not limit the types of remedies the agency could seek in an enforcement action it initiated under Title VII

Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams

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

R. De Quijas v. Shearson/American Express, Inc.

Holding that if Supreme Court precedent has direct application to case, "the Court of Appeals should follow the case which directly controls, leaving to th[e Supreme] Court the prerogative of overruling its own decisions"

Southland Corp. v. Keating

Holding that through the FAA, "Congress intended to foreclose state legislative attempts to undercut the enforceability of arbitration agreements"

Perry v. Thomas

Holding that the FAA preempted a state statute permitting litigation of wage collection actions despite the existence of a private agreement to arbitrate

Section 1 - "Maritime transactions" and "commerce" defined; exceptions to operation of title

Defining the word "commerce" in the language of the Commerce Clause itself

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

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

Section 157 - Right of employees as to organization, collective bargaining, etc.

Granting employees the right to engage in or refrain from engaging in union activity

Section 2698 - Title of part

Section 2699 - Civil penalty; civil action by aggrieved employee to recover

Providing that "[a]ny employee who prevails in any action" shall be entitled to reasonable attorney's fees

Section 382 - Party not consenting to joinder as plaintiff made defendant

Setting forth the requirements for class action certification

Section 229 - Arbitration agreements

Barring enforcement of agreements to arbitrate wage claims

Section 13 - Singular and plural