Who can enforce arbitration agreements
Interstate Fire & Casualty v. Crescent City Surgical Operating
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Several insurers ask whether federal or state law determines when a business that did not sign an arbitration agreement can enforce it under an international arbitration treaty.
- What's at stake
- The parties still have no Supreme Court answer on which law governs enforcement of the arbitration agreement.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
Their petition was distributed for a conference; that is not a decision to hear the case.
The agreement is governed by the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, an international treaty.
Question presented
Whether federal common law or state law supplies the rule of equitable estoppel that determines when a nonsignatory may enforce an arbitration agreement governed by the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards.
What happens next
The petition was distributed for the Court’s December 4, 2026, conference. That is not a decision to hear the case and does not guarantee an order on that date.
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