Matter of Chern v. DiNapoli

How courts have described this case

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• “[A] contract dispute is arbitrable even if one party argues that the contract should be rescinded.”
• “All that is important is that the parties have agreed that arbitration rather than adjudication would be the mode of resolving their disputes.”
• arbitrators are meant to resolve questions of interpretation when the meaning of a contract term is unclear
• “[A] literal meeting of the minds is not required for an enforceable contract, which is fortunate, since courts are not renowned as mind readers.”
• a district attorney’s office “acts as a state office with regard to 21 actions taken in its prosecutorial capacity, and [it] is not subject to suit under § 1983”
• “It will ... be open to Colfax to argue to the arbitrator that ... there really was [a latent ambiguity] over the manning requirements and therefore that the contract should be rescinded after all.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).