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Ninth Circuit· 10/11/1990

Britton v. Co-Op Banking Group

Citations

  • 916 F.2d 1405
  • 1990 U.S. App. LEXIS 17801
  • 1990 WL 151271

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that the Federal Arbitration Act confers only the right to obtain an order to compel arbitration, not an unqualified right to compel arbitration of any dispute at any time
  • no waiver of arbitration found despite the fact that parties engaged in discovery activity and motion practice over a period of two years
  • “Absent a stay, an appeal 27 seeking review of collateral orders does not deprive the trial -19- 1 court of jurisdiction over other proceedings in the 2 case. . . .”
  • “Absent a stay, an appeal 27 seeking review of collateral orders does not deprive the trial -19- 1 court of jurisdiction over other proceedings in the 2 case. . . .”
  • stay was required because the nonarbitrable issue of guarantor’s liability to buyer was “completely dependent upon the arbitrable issues of the fact and extent of [the buyer’s] liability” under arbi-trable contract between buyer and seller

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Judges: Fletcher, Lively, Reinhardt

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