Legal Opinion
in Re Olshan Foundation Repair Company, LLC and Olshan Foundation Repair Company of Dallas, Ltd.
Texas Supreme Court
Decided December 3, 2010No. 09-0432, 09-0433, 09-0474, 09-0703PublishedCited by 211 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wainwright
Olshan Foundation Repair Company filed these petitions for writs of mandamus in four different cases in which three separate trial courts denied Olsharis pleas in abatement, refusing to compel arbitration of consumer claims against it. Three different courts of appeals also declined to order the disputes to arbitration. We consolidated these cases for argument and now issue a consolidated opinion. Because the Texas General Arbitration Act (TAA), and not the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), governs the arbitration dispute in one of the cases (Waggoner, No. 09-0474), we deny Olshan mandamus…
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