Cynthia Huffman v. The Hilltop Companies

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• holding that arbitration clause did not expire despite parties’ failure to list it in the contract’s survival clause
• holding that arbitration clause survived termination even when 15 agreement’s survival clause did not include arbitration clause
• holding “parties did not clearly intend for [a] survival clause to serve as an exhaustive list of the provisions that would survive” because a “non-compete clause remain[ed] in effect for twelve months after expiration, yet it [was] not listed in the survival clause”
• rejecting the expressio unius argument that the omission of an arbitration clause from a survival clause in an agreement constituted a clear implication that the parties intended the arbitration clause to expire with the agreement
• discussing “the strong federal policy” and “strong presumption in favor of arbitration”
• broadly worded arbitration clause in employment agreement applied after expiration of contract, even though it (and noncompete, severability, and integration clauses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).