Chiron Corporation, a Delaware Corporation v. Ortho Diagnostic Systems, Inc., a New Jersey Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “district court correctly found that the federal law of arbitrability under the FAA governs the allocation of authority between courts and arbitrators” despite arbitration agreement’s choice-of-law provision
• holding that “district court correctly found that the federal law of arbitrability under the FAA governs the allocation of authority between courts and arbitrators” despite arbitration agreement’s choice-of-law provision
• holding that in determining whether to compel 8 arbitration, a court may only consider (1) if a valid arbitration agreement exists and (2) if 9 the agreement encompasses the dispute at issue
• noting that “[i]f the response is 18 affirmative on both counts, then the [FAA] requires the court to enforce the arbitration agreement 19 in accordance with its terms”
• noting that “[i]f the response is 20 affirmative on both counts, then the [FAA] requires the court to enforce the arbitration agreement 21 in accordance with its terms”
• holding the res judicata effect of a prior arbitration award on a subsequent arbitration is an issue to be determined by an arbitrator “because res judicata is a legal defense that is necessarily intertwined with the merits”

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