| Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis | |
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| Argued October 2, 2017 Decided May 21, 2018 | |
| Full case name | Epic Systems Corporation v. Jacob Lewis Ernst & Young LLP, et al. v. Morris, et al. National Labor Relations Board v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc., et al. |
| Docket nos. | 16-285 16-300 16-307 |
| Citations | 584 U.S. ___ (more) 138 S. Ct. 1612; 200 L. Ed. 2d 889 |
| Argument | Oral argument |
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| Congress has instructed in the Federal Arbitration Act that arbitration agreements providing for individualized proceedings must be enforced and neither saving clause of the Act nor the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 suggests otherwise. | |
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| Majority | Gorsuch, joined by Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, Alito |
| Concurrence | Thomas |
| Dissent | Ginsburg, joined by Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan |
| Laws applied | |
| Federal Arbitration Act, National Labor Relations Act | |
| External videos | |
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 Oral arguments on C-SPAN |
Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, 584 U.S. ___ (2018), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on how two federal laws, the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), relate to whether employment contracts can legally bar employees from collective arbitration. The Supreme Court had consolidated three cases, Epic Systems Corp. v Lewis (Docket 16-285), Ernst & Young LLP v. Morris (16-300), and National Labor Relations Board v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc. (16-307). In a 5–4 decision issued in May 2018, the Court ruled that arbitration agreements requiring individual arbitration and prohibiting class action lawsuits are enforceable under the FAA, regardless of allowances set out within the NLRA.