California Court of Appeal

Thomas v. Westlake, D058531

In a suit against an investment advisor and related defendants for churning the account of an elderly client, an order denying the defendants' petition to compel arbitration is reversed, where: 1) the trial court erred by relying on Code of Civil Procedure section 1281.2(c) to deny the petition to compel arbitration, because all defendants were entitled to enforce the arbitration clauses as parties to the agreements containing the clauses or as agents of such parties; and 2) all of the claims pleaded in the operative complaint were arbitrable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/23/2012
• Published 03/23/2012

Judges

• Irion

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edgerton & Weaver, Timothy C. Karen