UNITED STATES 2 November 2020 Elko Broadband

United States District Court, District of Nevada, 2 November 2020, Case No. 3:19-cv-00610-LRH-WGC

(Elko Broadband Ltd. v. Dhabi Holdings PJSC, et al.)

02 - 11 - 2020

UNITED STATES 2 November 2020 Elko Broadband

Jurisdiction United States
Summary

Presented with a motion to compel arbitration, the Court had previously found that the arbitration agreement at issue fell within the scope of the New York Convention and that it related to the dispute. In this decision, the Court denied Elko's motion for reconsideration, which based on newly discovered evidence that the person who signed the contract containing the arbitration clause on behalf of one of the defendants did not have the authority to do so. Thus, according to Elko, this non-signatory could not rely on the arbitration clause. The Court held that it need not address the factual substance of Elko's argument because the United States Supreme Court recently overturned the Eleventh Circuit precedent relied on by Elko, Outokumpu, holding that the New York Convention does not categorically prohibit non-signatories from enforcing arbitration agreements under domestic doctrines, including equitable estoppel.

Related topics
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The court discusses the meaning and effect of the referral of the resolution of disputes to arbitration, including: who can ask for referral and when, whether a party has waived its right to request arbitration, the defense that there was no contract at all; whether there was a condition precedent to the commencement of arbitration (e.g. mediation), stay of proceedings v. compelling arbitration, and national procedural specificities such as remand and removal (US), effect of class action. etc.

Referral to arbitration in general
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Multi-party disputes: The court discusses under which conditions non-signatories are covered by an arbitration agreement entered into by another party.

Third parties (see also Art. I sub F "problems concerning the identity of the respondent", ¶106)
UNITED STATES 2 November 2020 Elko Broadband