Ekereke v. Obong

Sears, Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case to consider whether, when parties agree during the course of litigation to submit their claims to binding arbitration, they waive the right to a jury trial. Even though the litigants in this case expressly agreed to submit all of their claims to binding arbitration, the Court of Appeals held that the right to a jury trial was not waived because the procedures followed in that arbitration rendered it non-binding. Because the Court of Appeals’ decision erroneously negated the parties’ express agreement to submit their claims to binding…