Epic Games, Inc. v. Murphy-Johnson

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the parties “incorporation of the AAA rules demonstrate[s] that the parties agreed the arbitrator should decide issues of substantive arbitrability”
• noting that the North Carolina Act “dictate[s] that arbitration is strictly a matter of contract”
• finding that a clause that requires that arbitration be “conducted pursuant to” the AAA Rules incorporates these rules
• concluding similar language indicated that the parties sought to delegate issues of substantive arbitrability to the arbitrator
• observing that the FAA standard of “clear and unmistakable evidence” is “a more exacting standard than currently exists when interpreting arbitration clauses subject to the [North Carolina Act]”
• declining to determine whether the FAA or the North Carolina Act applied because “[u]nder either law, the plain language of the arbitration clause, properly interpreted, delegates the threshold issue of substantive arbitrability to the arbitrator – not to the trial court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-23· cited 9,657×
• Volt Info. Sciences, Inc. v. Bd. of Trustees of Leland Stanford Jr. U.
  Supreme Court· 1989-03-06· cited 2,861×
• King v. Bryant
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2013-02-05· cited 21×
• T.M.C.S., Inc. v. Marco Contractors, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2015-12-01· cited 16×
• Bailey v. Ford Motor Co.
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2015-12-15· cited 8×