First Liberty Investment Group v. Eric Scott Nicholsberg

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a dispute between an employer and a former employee regarding the employee’s alleged breach of his employment contract fell within the scope of the parties’ arbitration agreement
• finding that the contractual language is not dispositive of an agency relationship, rather “the parties’ total relationship” controls
• determining that a party agreed to arbitration where the contract provided: “I agree to arbitrate any dispute, claim or controversy that may arise between me and my firm”
• rejecting tyranny of labels in arbitration matter, considering characterization in agreement and indicating “[w]hat rather controls is the parties’ total relationship.”
• applying the epigram to conclude that an employer could not escape an arbitration clause by labeling an employee as an \independent contractor\
• member of self-regulating association is bound by association’s regulations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).