Legal Opinion
Hercules & Co. v. Shama Restaurant Corp.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 21, 1992No. 90-CV-593PublishedCited by 111 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHWELB, Associate Judge:
Hercules & Co. (Hercules), appeals from the confirmation of an arbitration award issued in favor of Shama Restaurant Corp., et al. (Shama).1 Hercules contends that its dispute with Shama was not arbitrable (and therefore that the award was not properly confirmed) because both its contract with Shama and the arbitration clause contained therein had been fraudulently induced. It further argues that Judge Shellie F. Bowers erred on September 4, 1987, when he referred much of the dispute to arbitration and when he failed to conduct a trial on the merits before dismissing…
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