Court Opinion

ID: 9573540
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:56:35.834046+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:41:34.671141
License: Public Domain

OPALA, Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent from today’s holding that predis-pute arbitration clauses are enforceable under state law. For an explanation of my views, see Rollings v. Thermodyne Industries, Inc., Old., 910 P.2d 1030, 1037 (1996) (Opala, J., concurring in result). I would counsel the court not to dichotomize the body of law that governs arbitrable issues by creating exceptions in patent discord with extant federal jurisprudence. I utterly fail to find any record support for allowing the arbitration clauses in suit here to be invoked by any defendant other than the contract’s lone signatory — Adam J. Jeffery.