Miele v. Prudential-Bache Securities, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• determining the meaning of a term by looking at the statute as a whole
• rejecting argument that a petition to confirm transformed the matter into the kind of “civil action” governed by another statute and explaining that confirmation proceedings are governed by the arbitration code
• “[W]e find that the plain meaning of ‘civil action’ must be derived from the context in which the language lies.”
• \[T]he plain meaning of 'civil action' must be derived from the context in which the language lies.\
• “[T]he context in which a term is used may be referred to in ascertaining the meaning of that term.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).