Town of Chesapeake Beach v. Pessoa Construction Co.

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 existence of an agreement to arbitrate is necessarily a preliminary matter and so a trial court ruling requiring arbitration must be immediately appealable because “judicial review of an award following arbitration is limited.”
• stating that a petition to compel arbitration can be filed as a separate action
• addressing whether an order denying a stay of arbitration is reviewable under the collateral order doctrine
• “If the parties are incorrectly forced into the wrong forum, the loss to each may be significant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).