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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Parody of Arbitration Decision by Supreme Court Justice Scalia

Thanks to Professor Jean Sternlight for spreading the word about what she describes as a "brilliant but depressing parody Scalia decision finding that an employee is required to arbitrate all claims although the employer did not expressly impose arbitration on the employee."

The "opinion" says "We hold both that the failure to refer to arbitration in haec verba does not bar a finding of an agreement to arbitrate under the Federal Arbitration Act, and that arbitration is so much the preferred method of dispute resolution under the FAA that, for all contracts within its ambit, arbitration should be presumptively the sole method of resolving disputes that arise under that contract. Only when the parties have expressly and unmistakably negated arbitration, and insisted on judicial resolution, should a court refuse to order arbitration." 

Points for guessing which real opinions by J. Scalia this is parodying?

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