Legal Opinion
Ishwar Jain v. Henri Courier De Mere
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 3, 1995No. 94-3314PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
This case presents an issue of first impression: whether federal courts have power to compel arbitration between two foreign nationals where their arbitration agreement fails to specify a location for the arbitration or a method of choosing arbitrators. We hold that federal courts have this power and therefore reverse the decision of the district court.
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Henri Courier de Méré, a citizen of France, owns a number of patents pertaining to electronic ballasts for fluorescent and gas discharge lamps that he invented, de Méré signed a contract with Ishwar D. Jain, a citizen of…
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