Okorafor v. UNCLE SAM & ASSOCIATES, INC.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that defendants had substantially invoked the judicial process by filing multiple sworn and affirmative defenses, and affirmative claims for relief, including requests for declaratory relief, attorney’s fees, and sanctions
• concluding defendant substantially invoked judicial process because she pursued aggressive litigation strategy through amended pleadings that sought affirmative relief and abruptly switched to arbitration strategy when facing looming deadline to respond to discovery requests
• movants substantially invoked judicial process by filing “six counterclaims, several claims for declaratory relief, and requests for attorney’s fees and sanctions”
• appellate court must defer to trial court’s resolution of factual issues
• finding arbitration waived where party’s litigation strategy included counterclaims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).