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A-1 Premium Acceptance, Inc. v. Meeka Hunter

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Missouri, No. SC96672 · judgment October 16, 2018

Certiorari denied · March 18, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 3% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether a statement in an arbitration agreement that a specific arbitrator is to be utilized is an integral term that prohibits application of §5 of the Federal Arbitration Act if the named arbitrator is not available, thus invalidating the arbitration agreement as a whole.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Mark D. Murphy
The Murphy Law Firm

For respondent
F. Paul Bland Jr.
Berger Montague PC

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Mar 18 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Feb 27 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/15/2019.
  3. Jan 23 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent Meeka Hunter to respond filed.
  4. Jan 14 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 15, 2019)