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Opinion of the Court
Justice Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case presents the question whether a general arbitration clause in a collective-bargaining agreement (CBA) requires an employee to use the arbitration procedure for an alleged violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), 104 Stat. 327, 42 U. S. C. § 12101 et seq.
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In 1970, petitioner Ceasar Wright began working as a longshoreman in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a member of Local 1422 of the International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO (Union), which uses a hiring hall to supply workers to several stevedore companies represented by the South Carolina Stevedores Association (SCSA). Clause 15(B) of the CBA between the Union and the SCSA provides in part as follows: "Matters under dispute which cannot be promptly settled between the Local and an individual Employer shall, no later than 48 hours after such discussion, be referred in writing covering the entire grievance to a Port Grievance Committee . . . ." App. 43a. If the Port Grievance Committee, which is evenly divided between representatives of labor and management, cannot reach an
J. Henderson, Richard T. Seymour, Teresa A. Ferrante, Cathy VentrellMonsees, and Sally Dunaway; for the National Academy of Arbitrators by David E. Feller; and for the National Employment Lawyers Association et al. by Cliff Palefsky and Paula A. Brantner.
Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the Equal Employment Advisory Council et al. by Robert E. Williams, Ann Elizabeth Reesman, and Daniel V. Yager; for the National Association of Manufacturers by Clifford M. Sloan, Samuel D. Walker, Jan S. Amundson, and Quentin Riegel; and for the National Association of Waterfront Employers by Charles T. Carroll, Jr., and F. Edwin Froelich.
Briefs of amici curiae were filed for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States by Steven B. Berlin, Mark A. de Bernardo, Garry G. Mathiason, Stephen A. Bokat, Robin S. Conrad, and Sussan Mahallati Kysela; and for the Securities Industry Association by Michael Delikat, Gary Siniscalco, Lisa K. McClelland, and Stuart J. Kaswell.
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