Estate of Lackey v. State Tax Commission

How courts have described this case

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• declaring that the district court's legal conclusion that the defendant waived its right to compel arbitration through the party’s participation in the litigation process is subject to de novo review
• declaring that the district court’s legal conclusion that the defendant waived its right to compel arbitration through the party’s participation in the litigation process is subject to de novo review
• finding it “unnecessary to discuss the prejudice prong of our two-part waiver test” after the Court’s determination that the defendant had not acted inconsistently with its right to arbitration
• determining the scope of an arbitration agreement based on “basic principles of contract interpretation”
• “[W]e look to see whether, by [invoking the litigation process], that party has in some way prejudiced the other party.”
• alleged waiver based, in part, on the appellant’s filing of a state-court lawsuit against a third party

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).