Washington Mutual Bank, FA v. Milford-Jean-Gille

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing the district court’s order compelling arbitration because the defendant “lacked the capacity to sign the contract” which created the underlying arbitration agreement
• reversing the district court’s order compelling arbitration because the Defendant “lacked the capacity to sign the contract” which created the underlying arbitration agreement
• courts look to forum state’s contract law to determine validity of arbitration agreement
• “While any doubts concerning the scope of [arbitrable] issues should be resolved in favor of arbitration, a party who has not agreed to arbitrate a dispute cannot be forced to do so.” (cleaned up

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).