Baham v. Eagle Indemnity Co.

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• finding a discretionary stay would be appropriate for similarly situated party who did not correspondingly move for discretionary stay
• finding no prejudice would result from staying litigation pending arbitration because there was no indication that evidence would be lost, the case was still young and parties had conducted little to no discovery, and parties had not litigated substantial issues before the court
• “The doctrine of non-mutual defensive collateral estoppel prevents plaintiffs who lost to a defendant in arbitration from re-litigating the same issues against co-defendants in federal court.”
• “Thus, the mere fact that an arbitration provision deprives a party of a judicial forum cannot constitute ‘hardship’ for the purpose of materially altering a contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).