U.S. High Court Won’t Hear Franchisees’ Arbitration Delegation Appeal

Mealey's (March 22, 2021, 9:57 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on March 22 denied a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by two commercial cleaning business franchisees seeking resolution of a circuit split and a decision on whether a passing reference to a set of arbitration rules constitutes “clear and unmistakable” intent to delegate arbitrability issues to an arbitrator, rather than a court....