How have the courts interpreted a stipulation requiring attorneys to sign a binding arbitration agreement?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Parker v. Babcock, 37 Cal.App.4th 1682, 44 Cal.Rptr.2d 602 (Cal. App. 1995):
1 Only the attorneys signed the stipulation. But they represented they had the clients' full authority to agree to binding arbitration. (See Blanton v. Womancare, Inc. (1985) 38 Cal.3d 396, 212 Cal.Rptr. 151, 696 P.2d 645.)
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