Court Opinion

ID: 9884288
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-10-06 02:51:09.655776+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:48:37.331842
License: Public Domain

FORSBERG, Judge
(dissenting):
I respectfully dissent. Wilko v. Swan, 346 U.S. 427, 74 S.Ct. 182, 98 L.Ed. 68 (1953), has been narrowly limited to its facts by Shearson/American Express, Inc. v. McMahon, — U.S.-, 107 S.Ct. 2332, 96 L.Ed.2d 185 (1987). Wilko now stands only for the proposition that “where arbitration is inadequate to protect the substantive rights at issue,” then and only then is waiver of a judicial hearing barred. McMahon, 107 S.Ct. at 2339.
This is not the case here, and the overwhelming policy favoring arbitration should be upheld.