6 US Supreme Court employment cases during 2021-2022 session

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This 90-second video covers six cases from the US Supreme Court during the 2021-2022 session.

Four of them provide us with more guidance about the preemptive role of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA).

1. An airline ramp supervisor is exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act, so she does not have to arbitrate because she's in a" class of workers engaged in interstate commerce."

2. In deciding whether a litigant can enforce or vacate an arbitration award in federal court, the court cannot “look through” to the underlying controversy to decide whether it has jurisdiction.

3. In deciding whether a litigant has waved its right to arbitrate, a court cannot impose an additional requirement that there has to be a showing of prejudice.

4. A plaintiff in a California Private Attorney General Act case has got to arbitrate her individual case separate from her representation case on a non-class basis.

5. The football coach who said a prayer at the end of the game on the fifty yard line cannot be suspended because he has rights under the first amendment.

6. In suits under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Act (USERRA), the states have given up their sovereign immunity to suits in their own courts.