Pendergast v. Sprint Nextel Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the agreements to arbitrate under the FAA can be invalidated under general contract defenses such as fraud, duress, or unconscionability
• noting that all “data may be considered to the extent they indicate how the Florida Supreme Court might rule on an issue”
• “In instances where a state’s highest court has not ruled on a point of state law, federal courts are bound by decisions of a state’s intermediate appellate courts unless there is persuasive evidence that the highest state court would rule otherwise.”

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