Metro Industrial Painting Corp. v. Terminal Construction Co.

This case once again raises the difficult issues recently considered by this court in Robert Lawrence Co. v. Devonshire Fabrics, Inc., 2d Cir., 1959, 271 F.2d 402, certiorari granted, 362 U.S. 909, 80 S.Ct. 682, 4 L.Ed.2d 618, certiorari dismissed pursuant to stipulation, 1960, 364 U.S. 801, 81 S.Ct. 27, 5 L.Ed.2d 37. I concur fully in the disposition which the majority makes of this ease, but state my reasons separately since one of the issues involves the significant question as to the scope of federal law and its effect on state courts.

We decided in the Lawrence case that the Arbitration…