Ddi Seamless Cylinder International, Incorporated, and Seamless Cylinder International Corporation v. General Fire Extinguisher Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the parties could not designate a magistrate judge as an arbitrator
• avoiding language that called the procedure at issue an arbitration because federal statutes “do not appear to authorize or envisage the appointment of judges or magistrate judges as arbitrators”
• “An issue must be pressed, must be argued and supported; a bare conclusion is not enough.”
• “A conclusory, self-serving affidavit, lacking detailed 15 facts and any supporting evidence, is insufficient to create a genuine issue of material 16 fact.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).