Legal Opinion
44 Lexington Associates, LLC v. Supreme Security Systems, Ltd.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 17, 2016No. 1167N 156467/15PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Donna M. Mills, J.), entered October 22, 2015, which denied the petition to stay arbitration, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the matter remanded to Supreme Court for a hearing on the validity of the 2014 agreement.
Petitioner, who argued that its representative was defrauded into signing, or lacked authority to sign, the contract purportedly signed by the parties in 2014 (2014 agreement), raised a threshold question regarding the validity of that agreement, which is for the court, rather than an arbitrator, to determine (Matter of…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- In re the Arbitration between the County of Rockland & Primiano Construction Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1980
- M.I.F. Securities Co. v. R. C. Stamm & Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1983
- M.I.F. Securities Co. v. R.C. Stamm & Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1983
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