· 3/1/2010
Powershare, Inc. v. Syntel, Inc.
Citations
- 597 F.3d 10
- 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 4182
- 2010 WL 682513
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- \the Court in Chapman [v. California
- \the Court in Chapman [v. California
- concluding a motion “to stay litigation pending the resolution of parallel arbitration proceedings”
- explaining that \one of the cardinal rules of contract interpretation\ is \that a document should be read to . . . render - 23 - [all its provisions] consistent with each other\ (quoting Mastrobuono v. Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc., 514 U.S. 52, 63 (1995))
- collecting cases and holding motions to stay litigation and compel arbitration are non-dispositive motions, properly ruled on by a magistrate judge, and subject to a “clearly erroneous or contrary to law” standard of review
- “interpreting a contractual term [is] a question of law for the courts”
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Judges: Lynch, Selya, Souter
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