Episcopal Housing Corp. v. Federal Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding construction contract involved interstate contract where materials, equipment, and supplies were produced and manufactured out-of-state
• noting that new construction implicates interstate commerce because “[i]t would be virtually impossible to construct” a building “with materials, equipment and supplies all produced and manufactured solely within the State of South Carolina”
• apparent from construction contracts that materials from outside the state would be used in construction
• FAA applied to construction contracts in part because materials from outside the state would be used in project
• “It would be virtually impossible to construct [a] building . . . with materials, equipment and supplies all produced and manufactured solely within the State of South Carolina.”
• “It would be virtually impossible to construct an eighteen (18) story apartment building between 1971 and 1973 with materials, equipment and supplies all produced and manufactured solely within the State of South Carolina.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).