Berman v. Dean Witter & Co., Inc.

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• plaintiff's suit following arbitration barred under similar facts, involving identical customer agreement to the one present in this case
• “In California, arbitration is highly favored as a method for the settlement 21 of disputes.”
• “The phrase ‘any controversy arising out or relating to this contract’ is certainly broad enough to embrace tort as well as contractual liabilities so long as they have their roots in the relationship between the parties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).