· 9/10/1987
Schulze and Burch Biscuit Company v. Tree Top, Inc.
Citations
- 831 F.2d 709
- 4 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. 2d (West) 641
- 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 13830
How courts have described this case
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- finding that the FAA remedies missing details in arbitration agreements and enforcing a one-line arbitration provision
- permitting a substitute arbitrator to be named where the arbitration agreement clause provided, in its entirety, that “All disputes under this transaction shall be arbitrated in the usual matter” (quotation marks and capitalization in original omitted)
- “What the clause requires the parties in the present case to do is clear: arbitrate all disputes.”
- provision stating that “ALL DISPUTES UNDER THIS TRANSACTION SHALL BE ARBITRATED IN THE USUAL MANNER” was “not too vague to be enforced”
- FAA “contemplates” general arbitration clauses and sets forth a process for naming an arbitrator and choosing the location of arbitration
- court appoints arbitrator named in agreement
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Judges: Bauer, Cummings, Eschbach
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