State Ex Rel. PaineWebber, Inc. v. Voorhees

BENTON, Judge.

Relators PaineWebber, Inc., and Nickolas N. Betta seek to prohibit litigation and com pel arbitration of Janet M. Leslie’s claims for breach of fiduciary duty. This Court issued a preliminary order for relators, now made absolute.

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Leslie signed two PaineWebber account agreements. Right above both her signatures, in bold-face type is: “This Agreement contains a pre-dispute arbitration clause ...,” ending with the clause’s page and paragraph numbers. The clause requires arbitration of “any and all controversies ... concerning any account, transaction, dispute or the construction,…