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.

  1. 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 ↩︎