Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis
U.S. Supreme Court · decided May 21, 2018 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- May 21, 2018
- Term
- October Term 2017
- Vote
- 5–4
- Majority author
- Justice Gorsuch
- Issue area
- Unions
- Disposition
- Reversed and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2017 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 EPIC SYSTEMS CORP. v. LEWIS CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT No. 16–285. Argued October 2, 2017—Decided May 21, 2018* In each of these cases, an employer and employee entered into a con- tract providing for individualized arbitration proceedings to resolve employment disputes between the parties. Each employee nonethe- less sought to litigate Fair Labor Standards Act and related state law claims through class or collective actions in federal court. Although the Federal Arbitration Act generally requires courts to enforce arbi- tration agreements as written, the employees argued that its “saving clause” removes this obligation if an arbitration agreement violates some other federal law and that, by requiring individualized proceed- ings, the agreements here violated the National Labor Relations Act. The employers countered that the Arbitration Act protects agree- ments requiring arbitration…
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