Rodriguez v. American Technologies, Inc.

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• holding that although the scope of an arbitration clause generally is a question for the court, parties clearly and unmistakably agreed to have the arbitrator determine the scope of the clause where the contract mandated arbitration in accordance with AAA Rules
• when the parties “adopted the FAA—all 5 of it—to govern their arbitration,” federal arbitration law applies, and the “court will not rewrite 6 their contract”
• contract stating 11 “arbitrator shall have the power to rule on . . . scope or validity of the arbitration agreement” 12 assigned questions of scope to the arbitrator

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