Lawrence v. Board of Councilmen of Frankfort

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “Lanham Act . . . claims have been held to be subject to arbitration”
• noting that the arbitration clause provided for arbitration of all disputes \between the parties hereunder or involving this Agreement\
• finding that a non- signatory could be compelled to arbitrate when he brought suit seeking to enforce the agreement that contained the arbitration clause
• holding Lanham Act claims can be the subject of arbitration
• finding the claims “intertwined” because “[p|iaintiffs have asserted that [the defendant] breached the [a]greement containing the very arbitration clause they seek to avoid”
• “[A] party who “signs a contract containing an arbitration clause and incorporating by reference the AAA rules . . . cannot [later] disown its agreed-to obligation to arbitrate all disputes[.]’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).