WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Brett Kavanaugh has written his first majority opinion for the Supreme Court, a unanimous decision in an arbitration case.
Kavanaugh’s eight-page opinion Tuesday resolves a narrow question in a dispute between two businesses in a soured relationship involving dental equipment.
The case involved whether the dispute would head to arbitration or a lawsuit, and who would decide which path.
The court is not answering those questions, but it is rejecting a lower-court ruling in favor of a lawsuit. Kavanaugh says courts must stick to the text of the Federal Arbitration Act and “are not at liberty to rewrite the statute passed by Congress and signed by the President.”
Kavanaugh’s is the first opinion to be issued from the two-week session of the court that began in late October.
I’m so thrilled that I could vomit.
Was it the “I Like Beer” decision?
Celebration kegger at the president’s DC hotel. Rumor has it that Holton-Arms girls may or may not be in attendance.
I wonder if he’ll have that same opinion that it is the clear text of the law that governs when it comes to the numerous violations of law by Trump and company.
Sadly, the court continues to give the Federal Arbitration Act much more scope than was intended originally.
When Democrats re-take government, reining in the act should be an important priority.