Peebles v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fener & Smith Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• “The Federal Arbitration Act does not confer subject matter jurisdiction ... nor does it create independent federal question jurisdiction. Independent grounds for subject matter jurisdiction must be demonstrated.”
• “The [FAA] does not confer subject matter jurisdiction . . . nor does it create independent federal question jurisdiction. . . Independent grounds for subject matter jurisdiction must be demonstrated.”
• “We hold that a federal court has subject matter jurisdiction where a party seeking to vacate an arbitration award is also seeking a new arbitration hearing at which he will demand a sum which exceeds the amount in controversy for diversity jurisdiction purposes.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).