First Family Financial Services, Inc. v. Rogers

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• holding that plaintiffs were bound by the' arbitration provision when they signed an agreement containing an arbitration provision, even though they did not read the arbitration provision
• suggesting that a nonsignatory affiliate of a signatory to an arbitration agreement would have been entitled to enforce the agreement, which provided that disputes against the signatory's affiliates were subject to arbitration
• suggesting that a nonsignatory affiliate of a signatory to an arbitration agreement would have been entitled to enforce the agreement, which provided that disputes against the signatory's affiliates were subject to arbitration
• enforcing arbitration provision against buyers who elected not to read the contract that contained the provision
• '[W]hen a competent adult, having the ability to read and understand an instrument, signs a contract, he will be held to be on notice of all the provisions contained in that contract, including an arbitration provision, and will be bound thereby.'
• “[W]hen a competent adult, having the ability to read and understand an instrument, signs a contract, he will be held to be on notice of all the provisions contained in that contract, including an arbitration provision, and will be bound thereby.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).