In Re Firstmerit Bank, N.A.

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• holding that the trial court abused its discretion in failing to order parties to arbitration
• holding that an arbitration clause that permitted the stronger party to litigate certain claims was not unconscionable
• holding that non-signatory parties’ suit on the contract manifested their assent to the contract’s terms, including the arbitration provision contained therein
• holding that “a litigant who sues based on a contract subjects him or herself to the contract’s terms”
• holding that by joining their parents’ contract claim, the children “subjected themselves to the contract’s terms” even though they never signed the agreement
• concluding that installment contract for sale of mobile home related to interstate commerce and was subject to FAA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).