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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: 6% cert probability (95% interval 4%–10%)

Before the decision, about 1.5× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition, a petition filed soon after the judgment below, and a business petitioner.

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

Subject area
Economic Activity (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, March 18, 2019 · Certiorari denied

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)