AMGEN, INC. v. KIDNEY CENTER OF DELAWARE COUNTY, LTD.

No. 95-1988.

95 F.3d 562 (1996)

AMGEN, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. KIDNEY CENTER OF DELAWARE COUNTY, LIMITED, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 6, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Harte (argued), Joseph E. Tighe, Richard J. Prendergast, Richard J. Prendergast, Ltd., Chicago, IL, William M. Shields, Monteverde & Hemphill, Philadelphia, PA, Gerald T. McLaughlin, Cooley, Godward, Castro, Huddleson & Tatum, Palo Alto, CA, for plaintiff-appellee.

Jeffrey D. Colman, Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, Michael G. Tierce (argued), Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, PA, for defendant-appellant.

Before LAY, CUDAHY and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

Through the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U.S.C. § 1, et seq., Congress has adopted a policy favoring arbitration as a means of resolving certain contractual disputes. The FAA creates a body of substantive law that regulates arbitration agreements involving interstate commerce or maritime transactions, and this law generally attempts to make arbitration agreements easier to enforce and arbitration proceedings easier to administer...

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