Town of Rush v. New York State Off. of Renewable Energy Siting

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• observing that, under Georgia law, a plaintiff's claims must be directly, not just indirectly, based on the contract containing the arbitration clause for equitable estoppel to compel arbitration of those claims
• declaring that many of that circuit’s prior “decisions involving the question of whether a non-party can enforce an arbitration clause against a party have not made clear that the applicable state law provides the rule of decision for that question”
• declaring that many of that circuit’s prior “decisions involving the question of whether a non-party can enforce an arbitration clause against a party have not made clear that the applicable state law provides the rule of decision for that question”
• pointing to a number of cases, including MS Dealer, 177 F.3d at 947
• applying Georgia law to hold that “[i]n all cases, the lynchpin for equitable estoppel is equity, and the point of applying it to compel arbitration is to prevent a situation that would fly in the face of fairness”
• \A party cannot be forced to arbitrate any dispute that the party has not agreed to submit to arbitration.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).