James E. Morgan v. Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co.

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• holding that former employee’s defamation claim against former employer for latter’s assertions of petty theft from other employees’ work desks was not arbitrable because “no significant issue of [the employee’s] job performance qua broker is implicated”
• noting that \to acknowledge the ambiguity is to resolve the issue\ in favor of arbitrability
• holding complaint allegations must be examined in light of parties’ contractual terms
• pointing out that “[a] primary issue” in resolving a comparable post-termination, employment related slander claim’ would be “the truth of the statements”
• pointing out that \[a] primary issue\ in resolving a comparable post-termination, employment related slander claim would be \the truth of the state- ments\
• declining to compel arbitration of claim not implicating employee’s performance as broker

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