Smith v. Jerrome

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• finding prejudice from the plaintiff’s “forum shopping” when it belatedly moved to compel arbitration only after losing substantive pretrial motions
• noting “that neither filing a lawsuit covering an arbitrable dispute nor seeking injunctive relief in that suit are per se inconsistent with the right to compel arbitration” (emphasis omitted)
• noting “thatneither filing a lawsuit covering an arbitrable dispute nor seeking injunctive relief in that suit are per se inconsistent with the right to compel arbitration” (emphasis omitted)
• “Many courts have held that a party seeking to arbitrate a dispute nonetheless has the right to seek injunctive relief from a court. That right, however, is a right to seek equitable relief in aid of arbitration.” (emphasis omitted) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “Many courts have held that a party seeking to arbitrate a dispute nonetheless has the right to seek injunctive relief from a court. That right, however, is a right to seek equitable relief in aid of arbitration.” (emphasis omitted) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “federal law alone governs the court's waiver inquiry”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).