Legal Opinion
Alfred Janiga v. Questar Capital Co
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 2, 2010No. 09-2982, 09-3087PublishedCited by 111 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
This case poses the question whether the court or an arbitrator is responsible for deciding whether a particular document that the parties signed qualifies as a contract, and if so, whether that contract includes an arbitration clause. Alfred Janiga is a Polish immigrant who has lived and worked in Illinois for more than 20 years; nevertheless, to this day (by his account) he understands only limited English. Janiga’s brother, Weislaw Hessek, runs Hessek Financial Services, LLC (“Hessek Financial”) and is a registered representative of Questar Capital Corporation…
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