Jama Construction Corp. v. City of Los Angeles

How later courts describe this case

• affirming dismissal of ease because, following First English Church, claimant had to seek compensation through procedures established by California law
• affirming dismissal of case because, following First English Church, claimant had to seek compensation through procedures established by California law
• "[We are unwilling to conclude that the legislature intended to authorize the suspension of drivers' licenses based on the fruits of illegal arrests"
• two term lifetime limit for state senators and three terms for state representatives upheld under First and Fourteenth Amendment challenge
• Courts must disregard contract language and “consider only issues relating to the making and performance of the agreement to arbitrate”
• the issue of agency "is properly before the court rather than before an arbitrator"
• “[C]ourts may not consider challenges to a contract’s validity or enforceability as defenses against arbitration. ... Prima Paint demands that arbitration clauses be treated as severable from the documents in which they appear unless their is clear intent to the eon-trary.”