Legal Opinion
Awuah v. Coverall North America, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 23, 2009No. 08-1920PublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
The question before us is whether a dispute over the validity of an arbitration agreement should be decided by a court or by an arbitrator. Appellant is Coverall North America, Inc., itself the subsidiary of still larger enterprises. Coverall contracts to provide commercial janitorial cleaning services to building owners or operators throughout the United States. It “franchises” other companies or individuals to do the actual cleaning of the premises and has more than 5,000 such franchises in place in the United States.
The franchise agreements promise to supply the…
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