Williams v. Cigna Financial Advisors Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “parties [are] bound by [an] arbitrator’s decision not in ‘manifest disregard’ of the law”
• discussing the standard of review of an arbitration award dictated by the FAA
• upholding arbitration panel’s decision requiring employee to pay half of all forum fees
• focusing upon the inability to pay; whether the forum fees created a prohibitive expense; whether Williams had 10 a full opportunity to vindicate his claims; and whether the forum fees prevented the arbitral forum from providing an adequate substitute for the judicial forum
• “[W]hether a federal statutory claim can be subjected to compulsory arbitration depends upon whether the particular arbitral forum involved provides an adequate substitute for a judicial forum in protecting the particular statutory right at issue.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).