Legal Opinion
Martha Olson v. Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 21, 1986No. 86-1334PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Martha Olson had a commodity-trading account with Paine Webber, a brokerage house. She incurred a loss of some $18,000 in trading silver futures and, attributing the loss to a failure by her account executive at Paine Webber to follow her instructions, brought this suit for damages under the Commodity Exchange Act, 7 U.S.C. §§ 1 et seq. Paine Webber moved the district judge to stay the case pending arbitration of the dispute and to order arbitration, forms of relief expressly authorized by sections 3 and 4, respectively, of the United States Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. §§…
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