Steven McArdle v. at&tmobility, LLC; New Cingular Wireless Pcs, LLC; New Cingular Wireless Services, Inc.

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
STEVEN MCARDLE,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
v.
AT&T MOBILITY, LLC; NEW
CINGULAR WIRELESS PCS, LLC;
NEW CINGULAR WIRELESS
SERVICES, INC.,
Defendants - Appellants.
No. 09-17218
D.C. No. 4:09-cv-01117-CW
Northern District of California,
Oakland
ORDER AMENDING
MEMORANDUM DISPOSITION
AND DENYING PETITION FOR
REHEARING
Before: HUG, RAWLINSON, and IKUTA, Circuit Judges.
The Memorandum Disposition filed on June 29, 2012 is amended as
follows:
On page 2 of the Memorandum Disposition, last paragraph, the first sentence
is amended by inserting <noted> following <we> and deleting the language
beginning with <remanded> through <reasoning>, so that the sentence now reads:
<In Coneff, we noted that “generally applicable contract defenses” survive under
§ 2 of the Federal Arbitration Act>.
The second sentence of the last paragraph is deleted in its entirety.
FILED
AUG 31 2012
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U .S. C OU R T OF APPE ALS

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09-17218 2
The third sentence of the last paragraph is amended by deleting
<Therefore>, deleting the language beginning with <for> through the end of the
sentence, and inserting <to consider in the first instance McArdle’s arguments
based on generally applicable contract defenses> following <district court>, so the
sentence now reads: <We remand to the district court to consider in the first
instance McArdle’s arguments based on generally applicable contract defenses.>.
An Amended Memorandum Disposition will be filed simultaneously with
this Order.
With these amendments, the panel has voted to deny Appellant’s Petition for
Rehearing filed on July 2, 2012.
The Petition for Rehearing is DENIED. No further petitions for rehearing
and/or rehearing en banc will be entertained.

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This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent*
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision**
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
STEVEN MCARDLE,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
v.
AT&T MOBILITY, LLC; NEW
CINGULAR WIRELESS PCS, LLC;
NEW CINGULAR WIRELESS
SERVICES, INC.,
Defendants - Appellants.
No. 09-17218
D.C. No. 4:09-cv-01117-CW
AMENDED
MEMORANDUM*
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Northern District of California
Claudia A. Wilken, District Judge, Presiding
Submitted June 15, 2012**
San Francisco, California
Before: HUG, RAWLINSON, and IKUTA, Circuit Judges.
FILED
AUG 31 2012
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U .S. C OU R T OF APPE ALS

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2
AT&T Mobility, LLC appeals the district court’s order denying its motion to
compel arbitration.
When the district court denied the motion to compel arbitration, it did not
have the benefit of the decisions by the United States Supreme Court in AT&T
Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, 131 S. Ct. 1740 (2011) and by this court in Coneff v.
AT&T Corp., 673 F.3d 1155 (9th Cir. 2012). The district court ruled that the
arbitration clause in the agreement between Plaintiff Steven McArdle and AT&T
was unenforceable due to the absence of class action relief. This ruling is not
consistent with the holdings of Concepcion and Coneff. See Concepcion, 131 S.
Ct. at 1751-52; Coneff, 673 F.3d at 1161.
In Coneff, we noted that “generally applicable contract defenses” survive
under § 2 of the Federal Arbitration Act. Coneff, 673 F.3d at 1161 (quoting
Concepcion, 131 S. Ct. at 1746). We remand to the district court to consider in the
first instance McArdle’s arguments based on generally applicable contract
defenses. See id.
REVERSED and REMANDED.

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