Denial Of Headrest Arbitration Deepened Circuit Split, Carmaker Tells High Court

( August 25, 2026, 1:59 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A car manufacturer urges the U.S. Supreme Court in a petition for a writ of certiorari to resolve “a 5-4-1 circuit split” over the enforceability by nonsignatories of delegation clauses in arbitration agreements, writing that the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals by denying arbitration in a dispute over an alleged defect with vehicle headrests wrongly gave itself the discretion to determine if such agreements can be enforced....