Split 6th Circuit Panel Says Chinese Nonsignatory Can’t Compel Arbitration

Mealey's (August 30, 2021, 10:42 AM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — A Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals majority on Aug. 27 affirmed a district court’s denial of a Chinese CEO and his medical device company’s motion to stay an Ohio company’s trade secrets claims against them pending arbitration in China with the CEO’s other company and remanded the CEO’s agency argument to the district court, while a dissenting judge said the majority’s opinion is a “rewrite” of “pro-arbitration state laws.”...