473 U.S. 614 (1985) Cited 4,324 times 44 Legal Analyses
Holding that a court must consider "whether legal constraints external to the parties' agreement foreclosed the arbitration of those claims" prior to enforcing an arbitration clause
456 F. Supp. 2d 267 (D. Mass. 2006) Cited 13 times
Refusing to rule, at motion to dismiss stage, as to whether importation of a drug that appeared to infringe on a patent was for uses within a statutory "safe harbor" or actually infringing, since that was a factual issue
Rejecting argument that reference to "remedies" in an agreement containing a mandatory arbitration clause preserves a party's right to litigate and, thus, renders the arbitration provision elective