Volt Information Sciences, Inc. v. Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior Univ.

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In Volt Information Sciences, Inc. v. Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior Univ., 489 U.S. 468, 474 (1989), the U.S. Supreme Court held that state law could preempt an arbitration provision in a contract where it also had a choice of law provision subjecting the contract to the law of that state. The Court affirmed the California Supreme Court on this issue despite the enforceability of the Federal Arbitration Act of 1925, which gave effect to contractual arbitration provisions.

Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote the decision for the 6-2 court. He did not recuse himself from the case concerning his alma mater, even though his law school classmate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor did recuse herself.