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BLUE CROSS OF CALIFORNIA v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. B122446.

78 Cal.Rptr.2d 779 (1998)

67 Cal.App.4th 42

BLUE CROSS OF CALIFORNIA et al., Petitioners, v. The SUPERIOR COURT of Los Angeles County, Respondent; Elizabeth Farquhar et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Five.

Review Denied January 13, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ginsburg, Stephan, Oringher & Richman and Gordon E. Bosserman, Terrenee M. King and Gerald J. Miller, Los Angeles, for Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

Ivie, McNeill & Wyatt, Inc., Barry Reed and Jay R. Taylor, Los Angeles, for Real Parties in Interest.

TURNER, Presiding Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

This original writ proceeding presents a question of first impression: whether a California court can, as authorized by state law, order classwide arbitration in a case that falls under the Federal Arbitration Act (the act). (9 U.S.C.A. § 1 et seq.) Stated differently, the issue is whether the act preempts California decisional authority authorizing classwide arbitration. The United States Supreme Court has...

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