Justices grant arbitration case, won’t take up Volkswagen emissions cases

Justices grant arbitration case, won’t take up Volkswagen emissions cases

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Ten years ago, in AT&T v. Concepcion, the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Arbitration Act requires courts to put arbitration agreements “on an equal footing with other contracts.” Concepcion involved a state law that treated arbitration clauses unfavorably. On Monday, the court agreed to hear a lawsuit from a fast-food worker who alleges that a lower court treated an arbitration clause too favorably.

The decision to take up the case, Morgan v. Sundance, Inc., came in … Read the rest