Webb v. Investacorp, Inc.

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 amount in controversy in Federal Arbitration Act action is amount in dispute in underlying arbitration proceeding
• holding that when considering a suit seeking to enjoin arbitration, it was proper to look at “the underlying arbitration to determine the amount in controversy in this action for declaratory relief”
• specifying that a company had a “debit balance of [] $75,000” and contended that its adversary was “contractually obligated to indemnify it for [that] loss”
• deciding, to leave unresolved the ques tion of which state’s laws applied because regardless of which law applied, the plaintiffs arguments concerning the validity of the agreement were without merit
• stating that this court usually will not review a matter that was not first presented to the district court and that issues not raised and argued in the initial brief on appeal are waived
• upholding an arbitration provision that called for the Texas-based plaintiff to proceed with arbitration in the county where the Florida defendant maintained its executive offices

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).