Epic Systems v. Lewis
United States Supreme Court
584 U.S. ___ (2018)
Relevant factsFree
Stephen Morris (plaintiff) signed an employment agreement with Ernst & Young (defendant) requiring individual, rather than class or collective, arbitration of disputes, but he filed a class-action Fair Labor Standards Act suit anyway; the district court compelled individual arbitration under the FAA, but the Ninth Circuit reversed, holding the individual-arbitration clause violated the NLRA's protection of employees' right to engage in collective, concerted activity.
IssueFree
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act requires arbitration agreements to be enforced according to their terms unless an agreement may be invalidated by generally applicable contract defenses.