Legal Opinion
Whitehaven S.F., LLC v. Spangler
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 10, 2014No. 13 Civ. 8476(ER)PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
RAMOS, District Judge.
The instant dispute concerns the validity of an arbitration clause in a litigation financing agreement. Respondent Steven Spangler (“Spangler” or “Respondent Spangler”) sought funding for a medical malpractice action in Indiana (the “Skyl-eign Spangler Litigation”) after his daughter, Skyleign Spangler, was delivered stillborn in 2003. To that end, Span-gler entered a loan agreement with a man named Harvey Thatcher (“Thatcher”) in October 2007 and, pursuant to a separate *337contract (the “Finance Agreement”), obtained additional funding from Whiteha-ven…
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