Legal Opinion
Kiefer Specialty Flooring, Inc. v. Tarkett, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 21, 1999No. 98-1945PublishedCited by 106 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE; Circuit Judge.
Kiefer Specialty Flooring, Inc., and Tarkett, Inc., were parties to two separate distributorship agreements in which Kiefer was appointed as a non-exclusive distributor of Tarkett’s commercial vinyl flooring products, first within the Northern Illinois market and then within the Kansas City market. These agreements contained identical arbitration provisions requiring all claims and controversies arising from or relating to the distributorship agreements to be settled by arbitration.
Upon Kiefer’s request to terminate the distributorship agreements, Tarkett commenced an…
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