GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC
Decided June 1, 2020. Clarence Thomas delivered the opinion of the Court.
Docket 18-1048 · 590 U.S. ___ (2020)
Holding
The Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards does not conflict with domestic equitable estoppel doctrines that permit the enforcement of arbitration agreements by nonsignatories to those agreements.
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How the Justices voted
Decided 9–0.
Majority · 9
- John G. Roberts, Jr.
- Clarence Thomas · delivered the opinion of the Court
- Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
- Sonia Sotomayor · filed a concurring opinion
- Elena Kagan
- Neil M. Gorsuch
- Brett M. Kavanaugh
- Stephen G. Breyer
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Concurring” means agreeing with the outcome; any split shown is the Court’s judgment, not each Justice’s reasoning. The lineup is the syllabus’s disposition of who wrote and joined each opinion. Source: the opinion’s syllabus (supremecourt.gov).
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