Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant, Docket No. 12-133. The issue is whether the Federal Arbitration Act permits courts, invoking the “federal substantive law of arbitrability,” to invalidate arbitration agreements on the ground that they do not permit class arbitration of a federal-law claim. Read our previous post about the case below here. Bloomberg’s coverage of the case is here.
Stay tuned!
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