Oxford Health Plans LLC, Petitioner v. John Ivan Sutter (569 U.S. 564)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 10, 2013 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 569 U.S. 564 · 133 S. Ct. 2064
- Decided
- June 10, 2013
- Term
- October Term 2012
- Vote
- 9–0
- Majority author
- Justice Kagan
- Issue area
- Economic Activity
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2012 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 OXFORD HEALTH PLANS LLC v. SUTTER CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT No. 12–135. Argued March 25, 2013—Decided June 10, 2013 Respondent Sutter, a pediatrician, provided medical services to peti- tioner Oxford Health Plans’ insureds under a fee-for-services contract that required binding arbitration of contractual disputes. He none- theless filed a proposed class action in New Jersey Superior Court, al- leging that Oxford failed to fully and promptly pay him and other physicians with similar Oxford contracts. On Oxford’s motion, the court compelled arbitration. The parties agreed that the arbitrator should decide whether their contract authorized class arbitration, and he concluded that it did. Oxford filed a motion in federal court to vacate the arbitrator’s decision, claiming that he had “exceeded [his] powers” under §10(a)(4) of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U. S. C. §1 et. seq. The…
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