California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. v. Intel Corp., 36 Cal.Rptr.2d 581, 885 P.2d 994, 9 Cal.4th 362 (Cal. 1994):
Morris v. Zuckerman, supra, 69 Cal.2d 686, 72 Cal.Rptr. 880, 446 P.2d 1000 illustrates this overlap between arbitrability and remedies. A contract required plaintiff and defendant to sell jointly owned land on demand of another party. When the demand was made, however, the plaintiff proposed selling to a company he controlled, and the defendant refused to comply. (Id. at pp. 687-689, 72 Cal.Rptr. 880, 446 P.2d 1000.) The arbitrators decided the plaintiff and defendant were fiduciaries, and the proposed sale to a company controlled only by the plaintiff was an inequitable attempt to " 'squeeze out' " the defendant. The arbitrators therefore declined to require the defendant to sign the new sale contract as written;
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