In a contract case involving two separate agreements involving the applicability of an arbitration clause in the latter of the two agreements, dismissal of the case is affirmed where: 1) res judicata bars consideration of the arbitrability issue as a state court already reached that issue and resolved it with sufficient finality; and 2) a finding of improper venue was proper as only the district court in the particular forum of the forum selection clause can issue an order compelling arbitration.
Read Haber v. Biomet, Inc., No. 08-1670
Appellate Information
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.Argued February 17, 2009Decided August 20, 2009
Judges
Before Posner, Kanne, and Wood Circuit Judges Opinion by Wood, Circuit Judge.
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