Court Opinion

ID: 9476171
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 05:49:11.145122+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:45:09.910397
License: Public Domain

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge,
concurring specially:
I have no problem with the result reached by the majority, but I am troubled by the route taken to reach it.
I would hold that Bhatia loses because he did not allege reliance on Johnston’s misrepresentations and thus cannot prove fraud of any kind. Bhatia does not lose because he alleged fraud in the inducement of the contract rather than fraud in the inducement of the arbitration clause. Because Bhatia cannot prove fraud at all, it seems to me that the majority’s reliance on Prima Paint as it does is only confusing.