Wood v. Millers National Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that parties reach a “point of no return” and waive arbitration at the moment they “invoke[ ] the court’s discretionary power, prior to demanding arbitration, on a question other than ... arbitration ]”
• holding that the right to arbitrate is waived when 10 a “party seeking to compel arbitration invokes the court’s discretionary power, prior 11 to demanding arbitration, on a question other than its demand for arbitration”
• discussing the district court’s balancing of judicial economy and the rights of the parties with respect to a stay
• “To hold otherwise would permit a party to resort to court action until an unfavorable result is reached and then switch to arbitration. We cannot sanction such a procedure.”
• arbitration waived when right asserted after adverse ruling on a motion to dismiss
• arbitration waived when right asserted after adverse ruling on a motion to dismiss

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).