United States Second Circuit

In contesting the applicability of arbitration provision where plaintiff alleges fraud in the inducement, threats by the defendant that arbitration favors him do not suffice to show that the arbitration clause was used by the contractor as a weapon in the broader fraud.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/06/2001
• Decided 09/07/2001
• Published 09/07/2001

Judges

• CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:, Before MINER, CALABRESI, and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Matthew G. Roseman, Forchelli Curto Schwartz Mineo Carlino & Cohn, Mineola, NY, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• David S. Pegno,Dewey Pegno & Kramarsky, New York, NY, for Appellees.