Legal Opinion
Intergen N v. v. Grina
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 22, 2003No. 03-1056PublishedCited by 304 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This case invites us to fit a complex set of corporate pegs into a series of unfamiliar holes drilled by international conventions and federal statutes. But the pegs are square, the holes are round, and the fit is inexact. Given the facts of this case, the obvious bar to arbitrability is the abeceda-rian tenet that a party cannot be forced to arbitrate if it has not agreed to do so. The defendants advance several theories designed to circumvent this tenet. After answering a question of first impression in this circuit as to what legal standard con trols in cases brought…
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