Diana Mey v. DIRECTV, LLC

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the plaintiff’s signing of an acknowledgement of the arbitration agreement demonstrated her assent to that agreement
• enforcing an arbitration agreement contained in a contract signed only by the party resisting arbitration
• applying ordinary meaning, companies were affiliates “by virtue of their common ownership”
• “But we have time and again, emphasized that we must interpret and enforce the words of the particular arbitration provision to which the parties agreed.”
• “As with any contract, we must first be satisfied that an agreement to arbitrate has been formed. We resolve this question according to state law principles governing contract formation.”
• “The heavy presumption of arbitrability requires that when the scope of the arbitration clause is open to question, a court must decide the question in favor of arbitration.” (quoting Levin v. Alms & Assocs., Inc., 634 F.3d 260, 266 (4th Cir. 2011))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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Cites

39 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-23· cited 9,657×
• United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co.
  Supreme Court· 1960-06-20· cited 5,791×
• First Options of Chicago, Inc. v. Kaplan
  Supreme Court· 1995-05-22· cited 4,743×
• Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1985-07-02· cited 3,702×
• Volt Info. Sciences, Inc. v. Bd. of Trustees of Leland Stanford Jr. U.
  Supreme Court· 1989-03-06· cited 2,861×
• Robinson v. Shell Oil Co.
  Supreme Court· 1997-02-18· cited 2,720×
• Howsam v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2002-12-10· cited 1,948×
• Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna
  Supreme Court· 2006-02-21· cited 1,641×
• Stolt-Nielsen S. A. v. AnimalFeeds International Corp.
  Supreme Court· 2010-04-27· cited 1,358×
• Mastrobuono v. Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1995-03-06· cited 1,102×
• King v. Burwell
  Supreme Court· 2015-06-25· cited 932×
• United States v. Gonzales
  Supreme Court· 1997-03-03· cited 905×
• Home Depot U. S. A., Inc. v. Jackson
  Supreme Court· 2019-05-28· cited 714×
• Ali v. Federal Bureau of Prisons
  Supreme Court· 2008-01-22· cited 685×
• Graham County Soil & Water Conservation District v. United States Ex Rel. Wilson
  Supreme Court· 2010-03-30· cited 421×
• Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela
  Supreme Court· 2019-04-24· cited 381×
• Adkins v. Labor Ready, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 2002-08-30· cited 317×
• J.J. Ryan & Sons, Inc. v. Rhone Poulenc Textile, S.A.
  Fourth Circuit· 1988-12-13· cited 143×
• Levin v. Alms and Associates, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 2011-02-10· cited 139×
• Peoples Security Life Insurance Company v. Monumental Life Insurance Company B. Larry Jenkins Ronald J. Brittingham Thomas R. Jenkins, (Two Cases)
  Fourth Circuit· 1989-02-10· cited 124×