Four Decisions Conclude Claims Outside Scope of Arbitration Agreement
In a new post on the Arbitration Nation site of Stinson Leonard Street, Liz Kramer has collected four recent decisions in which courts have found the parties’ dispute over the scope of an arbitration clause is not covered by their agreement.
Kramer considers the question: “Is this the new arbitration resistance? Some kind of “scope-a-dope,” in which courts that don’t take kindly to arbitration can hold up their hands and say ‘I accepted that the arbitration agreement was formed, and that it was valid, but under state contract law, I interpret this claim as outside the scope.’”
