Schnautz v. Barnhart

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “courts need not defer to the arbitrators [on contract formation issues] because if a party did not agree to arbitration, the arbitrators have no authority to issue an award”
• “even if [nonsignatory] properly received notice [of the arbitration proceedings], the more important point is that [the nonsignatory] did not consent to arbitration and cannot be bound as a nonsignatory”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).