Nestler v. Exxon Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a claim brought on behalf of a Plan cannot be arbitrated “[b]ecause the parties consented only to arbitrate claims brought on their own behalf”
• articulating that “any doubts concerning the scope of arbitrable issues should be resolved in favor of arbitration”
• “We cannot, of course, compel arbitration in the absence of an agreement to arbitrate; to do so would be to defeat ‘the FAA’s 22 primary purpose of ensuring that private agreements to arbitrate are enforced according to their terms.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).