Christian Bouriez Montanelle Beheer B v. V. Carnegie Mellon University

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• explaining that equitable estoppel prohibits an individual “from challenging an agreement that includes an arbitration clause when that person embraces the agreement and directly benefits from it” (cleaned up)
• “We exercise plenary review over the District Court’s order compelling arbitration,” where the district court invoked equitable estoppel
• “We exercise plenary review over the District Court’s order compelling arbitration,” where the district court invoked equitable estoppel
• “A dispute that arises under one agreement may be litigated notwithstanding a mandatory arbitration clause in a second agreement, even where the two agreements are closely intertwined.”
• “A party, however, can be compelled to arbitrate under an agreement, even if he or she did not sign that agreement, if common law principles of agency and contract support such an obligation on his or her part.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).