DEAN WITTER REYNOLDS, INC. v. SHEAR

No. 73947.

796 P.2d 296 (1990)

DEAN WITTER REYNOLDS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Warren SHEAR, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

July 17, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Kirk, McKinney, Stringer & Webster, P.C., Oklahoma City, for plaintiff-appellee.

Peter G. Pierce, III and Kathy G. Merveldt, Carson, Pierce & Mueller, Oklahoma City, for defendant-appellant.


OPALA, Vice Chief Justice.

The dispositive issue is whether, in the face of an enforceable choice-of-law provision by which New York law is to govern disputes arising out of the contract, a party can invoke Oklahoma's fundamental law to challenge the validity of the same contract's arbitration clause. We answer in the negative.

Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., a securities dealer [broker], obtained an arbitration award against one of its customers, Warren Shear...

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