Arbitration agreement formation
W6LS v. Harris
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- W6LS, Inc., doing business as WithU and WithU Loans, petitioned the Supreme Court to review its dispute with Joshua Harris and others.
- What's at stake
- For W6LS, Harris and the other parties, whether that contract term was formed remains unresolved.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
It asks whether a delegation clause (a term assigning arbitration disputes to an arbitrator) can be treated as unformed because of an alleged defect in other contract terms, even though contract formation is undisputed and the clause itself is not alleged to be defective.
A delegation clause is a contract term that assigns questions about arbitration to an arbitrator.
Question presented
Whether a court may hold, based on an alleged defect in separate provisions of a contract whose own formation is undisputed, that no delegation agreement was formed, where the delegation provision itself contains no such defective term and where the party resisting arbitration made no specific showing that the delegation provision itself was never formed.
What happens next
The petition was distributed for the Dec. 4, 2026 conference, but that is not a grant of review or a promised decision date. The Court must first decide whether to hear the case; no oral argument is scheduled.
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More questions
- What does W6LS argue about the clause?
- W6LS argues that alleged flaws in other contract terms do not show the delegation clause was never formed when contract formation is undisputed and the clause itself has no alleged defect.
Sources
Primary materials plus reporting. Best-effort analysis: this explainer relies on a mix of primary materials and trusted secondary sources. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.