Lewis v. Circuit City Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• deciding preclusive effect of arbitration award but arbitration clause only required arbitration of “claims”
• “[T]the Supreme Court has determined that the FAA applies to agreements to arbitrate employment disputes . . . .”
• “[W]hen the FAA applies to an arbitration agreement, the FAA preempts conflicting state law . . . .” (emphasis added)
• “[O]ur usual rules regarding waiver and estoppel apply to prevent a party from complaining about the enforceability of an arbitration agreement if he already has fully participated in arbitration without any relevant objection.”
• “In deciding the claim-preclusive effect of a federal diversity judgment, we generally adopt the law that would be applied by state courts in the State in which the federal diversity court sits.” (citation omitted)
• “[M]any courts have held that, absent an explicit statement objecting to the arbitrability of the dispute, a party cannot await the outcome and then later argue that the arbitrator lacked authority to decide the matter.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).