What is the impact of a majority opinion in a medical malpractice case that moves the majority to arbitration?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Three Valleys Mun. Water Dist. v. E.F. Hutton & Co., Inc., 925 F.2d 1136 (9th Cir. 1991):
However, the concern that moves the majority is not the only policy consideration in this area of the law. There is a very strong federal policy in favor of arbitration. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Constr. Corp., 460 U.S. 1, 24, 103 S.Ct. 927, 941, 74 L.Ed.2d 765 (1983). Indeed, "any doubts concerning the scope of arbitrable issues should be resolved in favor of arbitration...." Id.
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