20/20 Communications, Inc. v. Randall Blevins, et

JAMES C. HO, Circuit Judge:

*717 The parties entered an arbitration agreement that permits the arbitrator to "hear only individual claims," and prohibits arbitration "as a class or collective action ... to the maximum extent permitted by law." An arbitrator nevertheless commenced a class arbitration under this agreement, on the theory that the parties' class arbitration bar is prohibited by federal law. The question before us today is not whether the arbitrator's class arbitration decision is correct, but whether class arbitration should have been an issue for the arbitrator, rather than a court,…