Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.

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• explaining that, under Maine law, ambiguity of contract language is a question of law that turns on whether the language is “reasonably susceptible of different interpretations”
• “Where the existence of an arbitration agreement is at issue, that question is to be decided with reference to state contract law principles.”
• “[T]his policy [favoring arbitration] applies only to the interpretation of the scope of an arbitration agreement, rather than to the question of whether such an agreement exists in the first place.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).