Directv, Inc. v. Imburgia (577 U.S. 47)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided December 14, 2015 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 577 U.S. 47 · 135 S. Ct. 1547
- Docket
- No. 14-462
- Argued
- October 6, 2015
- Decided
- December 14, 2015
- Term
- October Term 2015
- Vote
- 6–3
- Majority author
- Justice Breyer
- Issue area
- Economic Activity
- Disposition
- Reversed and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
How the Justices voted
- Majority
- Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Scalia, Justice Kennedy, Justice Breyer (wrote), Justice Alito, Justice Kagan
- Dissenting
- Justice Thomas (wrote), Justice Ginsburg (wrote), Justice Sotomayor
Oral argument transcript and advocates · Opinion on Justia
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2015 1 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321 , 337. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus DIRECTV, INC. v. IMBURGIA ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION ONE No. 14–462. Argued October 6, 2015—Decided December 14, 2015 Petitioner DIRECTV, Inc., and its customers entered into a service agreement that included a binding arbitration provision with a class- arbitration waiver. It specified that the entire arbitration provision was unenforceable if the “law of your state” made class-arbitration waivers unenforceable. The agreement also declared that the arbi- tration clause was governed by the Federal Arbitration Act. At the time that respondents, California residents, entered into that agree- ment with DIRECTV, California law made class-arbitration waivers unenforceable, see Discover Bank v. Superior Court, 36 Cal. 4th 148 , 113 P. 3d 1100 . This Court subsequently held in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, 563 U. S. 333 , however, that California’s Discover Bank rule…
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