Connolly v. Securities Industry Ass'n

finding preempted Massachusetts regulations requiring arbitration clauses in broker/customer agreements to be conspicuous and to be subject to full written disclosure concerning their legal effect | upholding summary judgment in favor of employees of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services in suit a challenging children’s placement in foster care home | a Massachusetts state regulation which: (1) barred firms from requiring individuals to enter pre-dispute arbitration agreements as a nonnegotiable condition precedent to account relationships; (2 | record reopened to consider a different equal protection theory | record reopened to consider a different equal protection theory | less than one kilogram of cocaine