League of American Theatres & Producers, Inc. v. Cohen

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Herman Cahn, J.), entered August 30, 1999, which, inter alia, denied petitioner’s application for a permanent stay of arbitration and directed the parties to proceed to arbitration, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The parties were properly directed to proceed to arbitration. Arbitration agreements are favored in the law, and, accordingly, arbitration should not be stayed unless the arbitration clause cannot be reasonably interpreted to cover the disputed matter (see, Harriman Group v Napolitano, 213 AD2d 159, 163, citing Coudert v Paine Webber Jackson…