Covington v. ABAN OFFSHORE LTD.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• providing that a choice of law analysis is unnecessary when the application of two bodies of law leads to the same result
• declining to enforce arbitration agreement against corporate president solely in that capacity in the absence of an agreement allowing company to contract on behalf of the president as an individual
• “Arbitration is strictly a matter of contract. If a party has not agreed to arbitrate, the courts have no authority to mandate that he do so.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).