Evidentiary Hearing Warranted before Compelling Non-Signatories to Arbitration

With the current post-COVID-19 state of affairs with the judicial system, there is attraction to arbitrating disputes as an efficient means to dispute resolution. Arbitration is a creature of contract and is a binding method to resolve a dispute outside of the judicial system. Just because there may be an agreement to arbitrate a dispute does not mean parties will concede that their particular dispute falls within the scope of the contractual arbitration provision. A party may still prefer to litigate certain disputes and preserve the right to appeal the outcome, a right which does not exist in arbitration. There...