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<ul class="bl"><li><a href="http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/us/000/041264.html"><b>Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna</b></a> 546 U.S. ___ (2006) (With regards to contracts containing an arbitration clause, a challenge to the validity of a contract as a whole and not specifically to an arbitration clause within, must go to an arbitrator, not a court, regardless of whether it is brought in federal or state court.)</li>
<li><a href="http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/us/000/04593.html"><b>Domino's Pizza, Inc. v. MacDonald</b></a> 546 U.S. ___ (2006) (A plaintiff cannot state a claim under 42 U.S.C. section 1981 unless he has or would have rights under the existing or proposed contract that he wishes "to make and enforce." Section 1981 plaintiffs must identify injuries flowing from a racially motivated breach of their own contractual relationship, not of someone else's.)</li>
<li><a href="http://laws.findlaw.com/us/000/03-1566.html"><b>Orff v. US</b></a> 545 U.S. ___ (2005) (Section 390uu of the Reclamation Reform Act does not waive the United States' sovereign immunity from breach of contract suits. )</li>
<li><a href="http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/us/000/061463.html"><b>Preston v. Ferrer</b></a> 552 U.S. ___ (2008) (When parties agree to arbitrate all questions arising under a contract, state laws lodging primary jurisdiction in another forum, whether judicial or administrative, are superseded by the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA).)</li>
<li><a href="http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/us/000/051429.html"><b>Travelers Cas. & Surety Co. of Am. v. Pac. Gas & Elec. Co.</b></a> 127 S. Ct. 1199 (2007) (Federal bankruptcy law does not disallow contract-based claims for attorney's fees based solely on the fact that the fees were incurred litigating bankruptcy law issues.)</li>
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