Sonat Marine, Inc. v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the question of whether a third party could enforce a delegation provision in an arbitration clause was for the arbitrator, not the court
• holding that a plaintiff’s challenge to a delegation clause was insufficient where the challenge was made “on the same grounds” as his challenge to the arbitration agreement in general
• stating that “a valid delegation provision removed judicial purview and transfers the question of arbitrability to an arbitrator”
• noting that the plaintiff failed to challenge the enforcement of the delegation clause with enough specificity
• noting that the plaintiff failed to challenge the enforcement of the delegation clause with enough specificity
• explaining that a party attacking the enforceability of a delegation provision must “show that the basis of their challenge is directed specifically to the delegation provision”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).