Legal Opinion
Capitol Place I Associates L.P. v. George Hyman Construction Co.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided March 21, 1996No. 95-CV-75 & 95-CV-282PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MACK, Senior Judge:
Appellant 1 filed a demand for arbitration of claims related to appellee’s construction of a large office building. Appellee sought a preliminary injunction in the trial court on the ground that the demand for arbitration was barred by the statute of limitations. Appellant asserted that the resolution of the statute of limitations question was for the arbitrator alone and, alternatively, that the statute of limitations had not run at the time it filed its demand for arbitration because the period of limitations was tolled pursuant to the “discovery exception.” See Ehrenhaft…
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