Second Circuit Cites Professor Horton in Grubhub Case

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit cited an article by Professor David Horton in affirming a lower court’s ruling that an antitrust case against the food delivery platform Grubhub belongs in federal court and not arbitration, as Grubhub had argued.

The court cited Horton’s article “Arbitration about Arbitration” (Stanford Law Review, 2018) and adopted an argument Horton has made in two other articles, “Infinite Arbitration Clauses” (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2020) and “Accidental Arbitration” (forthcoming, Washington University Law Review).

Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law David Horton's primary research and teaching interests are wills and trusts, contracts, and arbitration law.  In 2015, his article "In Partial Defense of Probate: Evidence from Alameda County, California" was selected as the winner of the 29th annual Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Scholarly Paper Competition and he was honored with UC Davis School of Law’s Distinguished Teaching Award.