· 2/19/1968
American Mannex Corp. v. Cronvich
Citations
- 251 La. 1014
- 207 So. 2d 778
- 1968 La. LEXIS 2888
How courts have described this case
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- holding that a ban on collective-action waivers in those contracts worked to “disfa- vor[ ] arbitration”
- recognizing that “courts should think hard, and then think hard again, before turning small cases into large ones”
- recognizing that a party who prevails on the bottom line may have enough of a “personal stake” to challenge an adverse ruling the court made along the way
- observing that “our usual adjudicatory rules suggest that a court should forbear resolving this issue”
- specifying that courts must assess the law as of “the time of the challenged conduct”
- explaining that a “longstanding principle of judicial restraint requires that courts avoid reaching constitutional questions in advance of the necessity of deciding them”
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