High Court Seeks Response To Assisted Living Facility’s Arbitration Cert Petition

Mealey's (September 10, 2021, 2:03 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 7 granted the request of the daughter of a deceased assisted living facility to extend the time to respond to its owners and operators’ petition asking the court to determine “whether the FAA preempts the South Carolina Supreme Court’s arbitration-specific approach to construing comprehensive powers of attorney to preclude an agent’s power to agree to arbitrate future claims.”...