Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis

Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis
Supreme Court of the United States
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
Case history
Prior	Lewis v. Epic Systems Corp., No. 3:15-cv-00082, 2015 WL 5330300 (W.D. Wis. Sept. 11, 2015); affirmed, 823 F.3d 1147 (7th Cir. 2016) Ernst & Young LLP v. Morris, No. 4:12-cv-04964, 2013 WL 3460052 (N.D. Cal. July 09, 2013); reversed, 834 F.3d 975 (9th Cir. 2016) Murphy Oil USA, Inc. v. NLRB, 808 F.3d 1013 (5th Cir. 2015)
Holding
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.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan · Neil Gorsuch
Case opinions
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
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.