I can’t believe we’re more than a week into August!  I don’t know about you, but I feel like I’m going to have to say goodbye to summer too soon.   I love fall, so maybe that’s not so bad?

Anyway, speaking of farewells, this week we get a back-to-the-basics refresher from the Eleventh Circuit on

In a footnote in Sutter, SCOTUS hinted that the question of whether an arbitration agreement allowed for class arbitration may be one of the “gateway” questions of arbitrability that are presumptively for courts to decide. Last year, the Sixth Circuit went one step further, finding that the availability of class arbitration defaults to the courts.