California Supreme Court
Mar. 8, 2013
Will the composition of the state high court affect California arbitration law?
In the past two years, two members of the Gentry, Discover Bank and Sonic-Calabasas majority have retired. By Alexa Woerner and Henry D. Lederman
In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court's judicial fuse has become noticeably short when it comes to state courts that rely on state public policies to thwart enforcement of arbitration agreements covered by the Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C. Section 1 et seq.). In late November 2012, the court, in a terse per curiam opinion, vacated an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision that "disregards this Co...
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