Harvey v. Joyce

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a stay must include issues of litigation brought against nonsignatory because allowing the litigation to go forward would render the arbitration “redundant and meaningless”
• holding that plaintiff’s non-identical claims against a non-signatory are “inherently inseparable” because the non-signatory’s “potential liability derives from [the signatory’s] conduct”
• if lawsuit against non-signatory were allowed to proceed, it would have a critical impact upon the arbitration
• “A court must strive to reach an interpretation which gives a reasonable, lawful, and effective meaning to all the terms of an agreement.”
• “A court must strive to reach an interpretation which gives a reasonable, lawful, and effective meaning to all the terms of an agreement.”
• “If [the non-signatory party] were forced to try the case, the arbitration proceedings would be both redundant and meaningless; in effect, thwarting the federal policy in favor of arbitration.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).