Ervin v. Nokia, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• “Under either federal or Illinois law, the right to compel arbitration stems from an underlying contract and generally may not be invoked by a nonsignatory to the contract.” (internal quotation and citation omitted)
• “To expand the doctrine of equitable estoppel . . . would unfairly deny Ervin access to the courts and force him to arbitrate his claim against Nokia, in spite of the fact that Nokia was not a party to the [agreement] that Ervin entered into with AT&T.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).