State of New York and George E. Pataki, as Governor of the State of New York v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the federal policy favoring arbitration must yield to the clear exclusions of the parties
• holding claim clearly fell within exclusion to arbitration contained in clause; therefore, claim fell outside scope of arbitration clause and was not subject to arbitration
• claim not subject to arbitration where “the arbitration clause, read as a whole, evinces the parties’ intent to exclude the type of claim at issue here from mandatory arbitration”
• “[I]n determining whether a particular claim falls within the scope of the parties’ arbitration agreement, [courts] focus on the factual allegations in the complaint rather than the legal causes of action asserted.”
• doubts regarding waiver are resolved in favor of arbitration

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).