Petrillo v. Barnes-Jones

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the question “must be decided in the first instance by the arbitrator”
• holding that, “[W]hen two statutes are capable of coexistence ... it is the duty of the courts, absent a clearly expressed congressional intention to the contrary, to regard each as effective”
• holding that the federal court was correct to reserve judgment on the choice-of-law question “as it must be decided in the first instance by the arbitrator”
• holding that district courts may not speculate what substantive law an arbitrator “might apply”
• holding that arbitration clause in bill of lading under COGSA was presumptively enforceable
• concluding, at arbitration-enforcement stage, that ruling on “prospective waiver” question would be “premature” given subsequent opportunity for review at award-enforcement stage

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