Couture v. Rumford Property & Liability Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “equitable considerations . . . weigh[ed] against compelling joint arbitration”
• parties should not be forced to arbitrate under agreements they did not join because forcing arbitration without consent “eviscerates not only [arbitration’s] legal root but also its greatest source of strength, promoting as it does the acceptability of awards by the parties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).