Snap-on Tools Corp. v. Mason

How courts have described this case

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

• submitting fraudulent inducement defense to arbitration because allegations of fraud did not relate to arbitration clause specifically
• asking whether a defendant “ma[de] a material 19 contribution to the creation or development of [the] content”
• submitting allegations of fraud in the inducement to arbitration because allegations did not concern arbitration clause specifically, but rather was a challenge to the contract in its entirety
• distinguishing between eligible, which means 13 1 “capable of receiving,” and entitled, which “means that one possesses the right or 2 title to that benefit” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “[E]ven if some piecemeal litigation does result, that sometimes is the inevitable result of a congressional policy strongly favoring arbitration”.
• “Moses H. Cone makes clear that, ... in most cases, a ‘liberal federal policy favoring arbitration’ prevails, and abstention is unwarranted.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).