Prudential Securities Inc. v. Marshall

How courts have described this case

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• explaining “any doubts as to whether . . . claims fall within the scope of the agreement must be resolved in favor of arbitration” under FAA
• determining that FAA applied to the case
• stating presumption in favor of arbitration “is so compelling that a court should not deny arbitration ‘unless it can be said with positive assurance that an arbitration clause is not susceptible of an interpretation which would cover the dispute at issue’”
• to determine whether claim falls within arbitration clause's scope, we look at terms of agreement and factual allegations in petition
• to determine whether claim falls within arbitration clause’s scope, we look at terms of agreement and factual allegations in petition
• “Any doubts as to whether . . . claims fall within the scope of the agreement must be resolved in favor of arbitration.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).