Mason & Hanger Co. v. Burnam

How courts have described this case

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

• “Parallel proceedings, one judicial, one arbitral, are governed . . . by the normal rules for parallel-proceedings abstention.”
• “The only purpose that we can ascribe to the word ‘issue’ in section 3 is to enable litigation to be stayed pending arbitration even if only one of the issues in the litigation is subject to an agreement to arbitrate.”
• “In a suit ‘upon any issue referable to arbitration under an agreement in writing for such arbitration,’ the court, upon determining that the issue involved in the suit is indeed referable to arbitration, shall upon application of a party stay the judicial proceeding.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).