JONATHAN PATTERSON v. CITY OF WEST PALM BEACH

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that when parties have agreed to arbitrate, courts \have no business weighing the merits of the grievance\
• concluding that when parties have agreed to arbitrate, courts “have no business weighing the merits of the grievance”
• holding that, when the parties have negotiated an arbitration clause, the function of the enforcing court is limited to determining “whether the party seeking arbitration is making a claim which on its face is governed by the contract”
• holding that federal courts “have no business weighing the merits of the grievance, considering whether there is equity in a particular claim, or determining whether there is particular language in the written instrument which will support the claim.”
• holding that, when the parties have negotiated an arbitration clause, the function of the enforcing court is limited to determining \whether the party seeking arbitration is making a claim which on its face is governed by the contract\
• explaining that a court has “no business” replacing what the parties bargained for — an arbitrator

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).