In re AMERICAN EXPRESS MERCHANTS' LITIGATION.
Italian Colors Restaurant, on or behalf of itself and all similarly situated persons, National Supermarkets Association, 492 Supermarket Corp., Bunda Starr Corp., Phoung Corp., Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
American Express Travel Related Services Company, American Express Company, Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued: December 10, 2007.
Decided: January 30, 2009.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Gary B. Friedman, Friedman Law Group LLP (Tracey Kitzman, Aaron Patton, Warren Parrino, on the brief), Blaine H. Bortnick, Christine Palmieri, Liddle & Robinson, L.L.P., Noah Shube, Law Offices of Noah Shube, Bernard Persky, Eric Belfi, Labaton Sucharow & Rudoff LLP, Brian Brooks, Murray, Frank & Sailer LLP, Curtis V. Trinko, Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko LLP, Paul C. Whalen, Whalen & Tusa, PC, New York, NY, Read K. McCaffey, Christopher W. Hellmich, Patton Boggs LLP, Roy A. Katriel, The Katriel Law Firm, PLLC, Washington, DC, Mark Reinhardt, Mark Wendorf. Reinhardt Wendorf & Blanchfield, St. Paul. MN, Robert W. Cohen, Law Offices of Robert W. Cohen, Los Angeles, CA, David Markun, Edward Zusman, Kevin Eng, Markun Zusman & Compton LLP, Robert C. Schubert, Willem F. Jonckheer, Schubert & Reed LLP, Susan G. Kupfer, Glancy Binkow & Goldberg LLP, San Francisco, CA, Karl Cambronne, Jefrey D. Bores, Chestnut & Cambronne P.A., Minneapolis, MN, Michael Goldberg, Glancy Binkow & Goldberg LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Bruce H. Schneider, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, LLP (Heidi Balk, on the brief), Jonathan M. Jacobson, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Evan R. Chesler, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, Stuart A. Alderoty, American Express Travel Related Services, Inc., New York, NY, Julia B. Strickland, Stephen J. Newman, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.
Janet L. McDavid, Catherine E. Stetson, Jake M. Shields, Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. (Maria Ghazal, Business Roundtable, of counsel), Washington, DC, for Business Roundtable, Amici.
Briscoe R. Smith, Martin S. Kaufman, New York, NY, for Atlantic Legal Foundation, Amici.
Daniel E. Gustafson, Karla M. Gluek, Gustafson Gluek PLLC, Minnesota, MN, for American Antitrust Institute, Amici.
Edith M. Kallas, Ilze C. Thielmann, Joy A. Nesbitt, Whatley Drake & Kallas LLC; Steven E. Fineman, Jennifer Gross, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, New York, NY; F. Paul Bland, Jr., Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Washington DC, for Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Amici.
POOLER, SACK, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
POOLER, Circuit Judge:
This Court frequently enforces mandatory arbitration clauses contained in commercial contracts. We do so on the principle that "it is difficult to overstate the strong federal policy in favor of arbitration, and it is a policy we have often and emphatically applied." Arciniaga v. General Motors Corp.,460 F.3d 231, 234 (2d Cir.2006) (quotation marks omitted). On this appeal, however, we are asked to consider...
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