Gestetner Holdings, PLC v. Nashua Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• looking to the post-drafting statements of a corporate officer, and finding “these statements reflecting the parties‟ practical interpretation of the contract to be highly probative of the intended meaning”
• attributing to the defendant corporation the statements of its “vice-president of finance and chief financial officer,” with no indication that he had personally participated in drafting the arbitration clause at issue
• attributing to the defendant corporation the statements of its “vice-president of finance and chief financial officer,” with no indication that he had personally participated in drafting the arbitration clause at issue
• “[W]here claims may be understood to raise an arbitrable issue, arbitration must be 20 compelled, even if the claims can also be characterized another way.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).