Sokol Holdings, Inc. v. BMB Munai, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing cases in which the court compelled a signatory to arbitrate with a nonsignatory on an estoppel theory and noting that “[i]t was, of course, essential in all of these cases that the subject matter of the dispute was intertwined with the contract providing for arbitration”
• “[U]nder principles of estoppel, a non-signatory to an arbitration agreement may compel a signatory to that agreement to arbitrate a dispute.”
• “It is black letter law that an obligation to arbitrate can be based only on consent.”
• “BMB’s argument makes a mockery of the precedents on which it relies”
• arbitration agreements cannot be enforced without consent to arbitrate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).