Allied-Bruce Terminix Cos. v. Dobson 513 US 265 (1995)#
One Line Summary: contracts requiring arbitration is applied to all disputes involving commerce even though it isn’t interstate
- Court Opinion (Court Listener) (unread)
- Oyez
- Majority Author: Stephen G. Breyer (unread)
- Concurrence: Sandra Day O’Connor (unread)
- Dissents: Scalia, Clarence Thomas (unread)
Twenty state attorneys general as amici curiae argued that Southland should be overruled. 1
“I do not believe that proper application of stare decisis prevents correction of the mistake.”
— Justice Scalia, dissenting.
Schwartz, D. (2004). Correcting Federalism Mistakes in Statutory Interpretation: The Supreme Court and the Federal Arbitration Act. Law and Contemporary Problems, 67(1), 5–54. https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol67/iss1/2 pp 10 ↩︎