U.S. Supreme Court,
Labor/Employment
Jan. 9, 2019
High court rules courts cannot decide arbitrability in presence of delegation clauses
The Supreme Court decided unanimously on Tuesday that in the presence of a clear delegation clause, the arbitrability of a dispute must be left to an arbitrator even if the application of the agreement to the issue is “wholly groundless.”
The U.S. Supreme Court decided unanimously Tuesday that in the presence of a clear delegation clause, the arbitrability of a dispute must be left to an arbitrator even if the application of the agreement to the issue is "wholly groundless."
In his premiere opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that a non-statutory exception used by some federal courts to decide arbitrability even when the question is contractually reserved for the a...
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