Amaro v. Livingston

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that CBA that “broadly prohibits the employer from engaging in unlawful discrimination and compels arbitration of ‘disputes’ regarding this prohibition” did not make “unmistakably clear that ‘disputes’ included statutory discrimination claims”
• explaining that the clear-and-unmistakable- waiver standard requires “specific references in the CBA either to the statutes in question or to statutory causes of action generally”
• determining that provision mandating arbitration of “any disputes,” without reference to statutory claims, was not clear and unmistakable waiver
• explaining that an arbitration clause must reference “the statutes in question or … statutory causes of action generally”
• noting that “[c]laims under Section 1981 . . . may be made subject to arbitration”
• explaining that the “clear and unmistakable” standard “require[s] specific references in the CBA either to the statutes in question or to statutory causes of action generally”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).