State ex rel. Johnson Controls, Inc. v. Tucker

KETCHUM, Chief Justice:

In this construction lawsuit we are asked to examine a circuit court order refusing to compel a plaintiff corporation to arbitrate its claims against three defendant corporations. The circuit court entered two orders in which it found that the arbitration clauses in the *491defendants’ contracts with the plaintiff were unconscionable. Further, the circuit court found that it would be inequitable to fracture the plaintiffs lawsuit into multiple “piecemeal” arbitrations and lawsuits against the defendants.

The defendants have petitioned this Court for a writ of prohibition to…