U.S. Supreme Court Precedents on Arbitration

Kabir Duggal is an attorney in Arnold and Porter's New York office, a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, an adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School, and a Course Director and a Faculty Member for the Columbia Law School-Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Comprehensive Course on International Arbitration. Yasmine Lahlou, Partner, Chaffetz Lindsey, has over 20 years of experience in international arbitration. Initially trained in Paris and admitted in Paris and New York, she is experienced in civil and common law systems. Yasmine has been counsel in dozens of arbitrations conducted under the ICC, ICDR, LCIA, UNCITRAL and ad hoc rules. Carlos Alberto Carmona is a Professor of Procedural Law and Arbitration at the University of Sao Paulo, a Partner of Marques Rosado, Toledo Cesar & Carmona Advogados, and former President of the Instituto Brasileiro de Direito Processual (Brazilian Institute of Procedural Law). Gustavo Favero Vaughn (LL.M, Columbia Law School) is a Partner at Cesar Asfor Rocha Advogados. He has worked as an International Lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, teaches at the Brazilian Institute of Capital Markets (Ibmec), in São Paulo, is an Alumni Advisor at the American Review of International Arbitration (ARIA) and Academic Coordinator at Arbitration Channel He has been appointed to serve as an administrative judge of the São Paulo Bar Association’s Ethics and Disciplinary Court.

• Notes on ContributorsEditors’ Note1 Supreme Court Case Law on Arbitration through a Restatement LensGeorge A. Bermann2 The Evolution of Arbitration in Light of Supreme Court DecisionsPeter J. Messitte, Carlos Mário da Silva Velloso, Erico Bomfim de Carvalho and João Carlos Banhos Velloso3 The Importance of the U.S. Supreme Court in Shaping U.S. Arbitration Law & PracticeDaniel Schimmel, Shrutih Tewarie and James Fullmer4 Prima Paint Corporation v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Company (1967)R. Doak Bishop and Marcio Vasconcellos5 Commonwealth Coatings Corp. v. Continental Cas. Co. (1968): The Supreme Court’s Fractured Interpretation of “Evident Partiality” under the Federal Arbitration Act and Its LegacyAnk Santens, Surya Gopalan and Stephen Hogan-Mitchell6 Scherk v. Alberto-Culver Co. (1974)Michael B. Carlinsky and Andre Luis Monteiro7 Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc. et al., 473 US. 614 (1985)Sherman Kahn8 Shearson/Am. Exp., Inc v. Mcmahon (1987)Steven Skulnik9 Volt Information Sciences, Inc. v. Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (1989)Peter Fox10 First Options of Chicago, Inc v. Kaplan, 514 U.S. 938 (1995): To Delegate or Not to Delegate, Forty Years OnKabir Duggal, Yasmine Lahlou, Carlos Alberto Carmona and Gustavo Favero Vaughn11 Vimar Seguros y Reaseguros, s.a. v. m/v Sky Reefer et al. (1995)Rodrigo Tannuri, Matheus Soubhia Sanches, Felipe Conrado and Rekha Rangachari12 Mastrobuono v. Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc., 514 U.S. 52 (1995)Caline Mouawad and Alex Lupsaiu13 Howsam v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. (2002)Gary L. Benton14 PacifiCare Health Systems, Inc. v. Book (2003)Samaa Haridi and Jessica Beess und Chrostin15 Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Bazzle (2003): The Supreme Court’s First Look at Class Action ArbitrabilityAndrew Behrman, Yining Bei and Zeinab Bailoun16 Intel Corp. v. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (2004)Preeti Bhagnani and Stephen Hogan-Mitchell17 Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc., v. Cardegna (2006)Lea Haber Kuck18 Hall Street Associates, l.l.c. v. Mattel, Inc. (2008): The Scope and Limits of Party Autonomy: Judicial Review of Arbitral AwardsPeter B. Rutledge19 Vaden v. Discover Bank, 556 U.S. 49 (2009)Dana MacGrath20 Rent-A-Center West, Inc. v. Jackson, 561 U.S. 63 (2010)Zachary Kady and Rahim Moloo21 Stolt-Nielsen S. A. v. AnimalFeeds Int’l Corp., 559 U.S. 662 (2010): The Impact of the Stolt-Nielsen Decision on Class-Action ArbitrationAndrew Finn and Pedro José Izquierdo22 Granite Rock Co. v. Int’l Bhd. of Teamsters (2010)Steven Skulnik23 at&t Mobility llc v. Concepcion, 563 U.S. 333 (2011)Grant Hanessian24 Oxford Health Plans llc v. Sutter (2013)James Hosking, Gretta Walters and Marcel Engholm25 American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant (2013)Fabiano Robalinho, Caetano Berenguer and João Lucas Bevilacqua26 bg Group, Plc v. Republic of Argentina, 572 U.S. 25 (2014)Elliot Friedman and Cameron Russell27 Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela (2019): The Supreme Court Limits Class ArbitrationJohn Fellas28 New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira, 139 S. Ct. 532 (2019)Michael A. Fernández29 Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc. (2019): The Henry Schein Dispute—Uncertainty Regarding Arbitral Jurisdiction and the End of the Wholly Groundless ExceptionMark Kantor30 ge Energy Power Conversion France sas Corp v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, llc (2020): Application of U.S. Domestic Arbitration Law to Non-Signatory Enforcement of International Arbitration Agreements, and other Potential Impacts of Domestic Arbitration Doctrines in International ContextsAri D. MacKinnon, Jonathan I. Blackman and Katie L. Gonzalez31 zf Automotive, Inc. v. Luxshare, Ltd. and Alixpartners, llp v. Fund for Protection of Investors’ Rights in Foreign States (2022)Flávio Luiz Yarshell and Rafael Stefanini Auilo32 Morgan V. Sundance, Inc. (2022)Liz Snodgrass and Laura França Pereira33 Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana (2022)Eduardo Damião Gonçalves, Arthur Gonzalez Cronemberger Parente and Laura Lambert da Costa34 Coinbase v. Bielski (2023): Shift from Judicial Discretion to a Mandatory Stay of Proceedings Pending Resolution of an Interlocutory Appeal from the Denial of a Motion to Compel ArbitrationBoaz S. Morag and Peter E. Carzis35 Cmb Monaco V. Smagin (2023)Katharine Menéndez de la Cuesta and Rafael Francisco Alves36 Coinbase, Inc. v. Suski et al. (2024): Delegation versus Forum Selection Clause, Contradictory Contracts, and Kompetenz-Kompetenz DoctrinePeter C. SesterIndex