Leary v. Melcher

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that agreeing to arbitrate claims entirely outside of court “does not alter or abridge substantive rights; it merely changes how those rights will be processed”
• explaining that the FAA “renders agreements to arbitrate enforceable as a matter of federal law”
• noting that the “‘arising out of’ language normally refers to a causal relationship”
• “‘[A]rising out of’ language normally refers to a causal relationship.” (citing Ford Motor Co. v. Mont. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 592 U.S. 351, 361–62 (2021)
• characterizing contractual arbitration provisions as “a specialized kind of forum-selection clause that posits not only the situs of suit but also the procedure to be used in resolving the dispute”
• “[T]he FAA does not require courts to enforce contractual waivers of substantive rights and remedies.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).