Assisted Living Facility Seeks High Court Review Of Arbitration Denial

(August 31, 2021, 12:54 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Calling it “another round” in a “maddening, and unseemly, game of cat and mouse” of “lower courts attempting to find ways to evade” the U.S. Supreme Court’s Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) precedents, the owners and operators of an assisted living facility in an Aug. 9 petition ask the high 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.”...