{"id":234,"date":"2019-01-24T11:58:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businesslitigationtrends.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2020-09-24T03:33:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T07:33:10","slug":"legal-intelligencer-us-supreme-court-settles-the-wholly-groundless-exception-or-has-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-us-supreme-court-settles-the-wholly-groundless-exception-or-has-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Intelligencer: US Supreme Court Settles the &#8216;Wholly Groundless&#8217; Exception. Or Has It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the January 24, 2019 edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Edward Kang, Managing Member of Kang Haggerty wrote &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/2019\/01\/24\/us-supreme-court-settles-the-wholly-groundless-exception-or-has-it\/?LikelyCookieIssue=true\">US Supreme Court Settles the &#8216;Wholly Groundless&#8217; Exception. Or Has It?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a recent article I co-authored, I discussed the \u201cwholly groundless\u201d exception to delegation clauses under the Federal Arbitration Act, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslitigationtrends.com\/legal-intelligencer-should-an-arbitrator-determine-arbitrability-where-a-claim-is-wholly-groundless\/\">Should an Arbitrator Determine Arbitrability Where a Claim Is \u2018Wholly Groundless\u2019?<\/a>\u201d The Legal Intelligencer (July 26, 2018). There, I discussed the circuit split on this issue and that the U.S. Supreme Court would soon decide this issue for good. And the court has.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 8, writing for a unanimous court in his first written opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh held that the wholly groundless exception to arbitrability is inconsistent with the FAA and, therefore, no such exception exists, see\u00a0<em>Henry Schein v. Archer &amp; White Sales,<\/em>\u00a0___ S.Ct. ___, 2019 WL 122164 (Jan. 8, 2019). The court held \u201cwhen the parties\u2019 contract delegates the arbitrability question to an arbitrator, a court may not override the contract, even if the court thinks that the arbitrability claim is wholly groundless.\u201d In concluding this, the court stated, \u201cthe act contains no \u2018wholly groundless\u2019 exception, and we may not engraft our own exceptions onto the statutory text.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-us-supreme-court-settles-the-wholly-groundless-exception-or-has-it\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Legal Intelligencer: US Supreme Court Settles the &#8216;Wholly Groundless&#8217; Exception. 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Or Has It?&#8221; In a recent article I co-authored, I discussed the \u201cwholly groundless\u201d exception to delegation clauses under the Federal Arbitration Act, \u201cShould an Arbitrator Determine Arbitrability Where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[41,336],"coauthors":[535],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","tag-arbitration","tag-legal-intelligencer","publication_lawyer-edward-t-kang"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Legal Intelligencer: US Supreme Court Settles the &#039;Wholly Groundless&#039; Exception. 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