Walling v. Standard Dredging Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the second step of analyzing whether a dispute is subject to arbitration is to ascertain the agreement’s scope
• “The FAA was designed to ... provide parties with a speedier and less costly alternative to litigation.”
• “It is settled authority that doubt regarding the applicability of an arbitration clause should be resolved in favor of arbitration.”
• “[O]ne who signs a contract which he has had an opportunity to read and understand, is bound by its provisions.”
• “When asked by a party to compel arbitration under a contract, a federal court must determine whether the parties agreed to arbitrate the dispute at issue.”
• “[I]f the court concludes that some, but not all, of the claims in the action are subject to arbitration, it must determine whether to stay the remainder of the proceedings pending arbitration”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).