Class Tells High Court Nursing Facility Failed To Raise FAA Questions Earlier

Mealey's (June 4, 2020, 7:28 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should not review a divided Arkansas Supreme Court ruling finding that only some arbitration agreements signed as part of a skilled nursing facility’s admissions process should be enforced because the facility failed to its raise its arguments regarding whether the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) preempts state law contract rules in the lower courts, class members argue in a May 18 brief opposing the facility’s petition for certiorari (Robinson Nursing and Rehabilitation Center LLC, et al. v. Andrew Phillips, et al., No. 19-1154, U.S. Sup.)....