9th Circ. Won't Rethink Voiding AT&T Arbitration Agreement
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>The full Ninth Circuit won't review a panel's ruling that voided an
>arbitration agreement AT&T had a customer sign, forcing the mobile
>behemoth to face a decade-old class action accusing it of misleading
>customers about overseas roaming fees.
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Well, that's probably to AT&T's benefit, because it means they can file the cert petition immediately, and the Supreme Court will likely hear the case next year if they don't just issue a summary reversal.[1] An en-banc would likely have delayed the inevitable outcome until at least 2022.
-GAWollman
[1] The Supreme Court has a long history of reversing CA9 on what it regards as the lower court's misreading of binding precedent. It also has a long history of considering any purported agreement to arbitrate, no matter how atrociously one-sided, as valid and binding on the parties.