Badgerow v. Walters
U.S. Supreme Court · decided March 31, 2022 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- March 31, 2022
- Term
- October Term 2021
- Vote
- 8–1
- Majority author
- Justice Kagan
- Issue area
- Unions
- Disposition
- Reversed and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2021 1 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321 , 337. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus BADGEROW v. WALTERS ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT No. 20–1143. Argued November 2, 2021—Decided March 31, 2022 The Federal Arbitration Act authorizes a party to an arbitration agree- ment to petition a federal court for various forms of relief. But the Act’s authorization of such petitions does not itself create the subject- matter jurisdiction necessary for a federal court to resolve them. Ra- ther, the federal court must have an “independent jurisdictional basis” to do so. Hall Street Associates, L. L. C. v. Mattel, Inc., 552 U. S. 576 , 582. In Vaden v. Discover Bank, 556 U. S. 49 , this Court assessed whether there was a jurisdictional basis to decide an FAA Section 4 petition to compel arbitration by means of examining the parties’ un- derlying dispute. The Court reasoned that specific language in Section 4 instructed a federal court to “look through” the petition to the “un-…
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