Porter Hayden Company v. Century Indemnity Company

How courts have described this case

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

• applying the “federal policy favoring arbitration” to resolve ambiguity in the scope of the arbitration clause (internal quotation marks omitted)
• scope of arbitration clause governed by FAA because the agreement “evidencfed] a transaction involving commerce”
• the heavy federal presumption of arbitra-bility “dictates that any ambiguity in the scope of the Wellington Agreement’s arbitration clause be resolved in favor of arbi tration”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).