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The Key Finance, Inc., et al. v. DJ Koon

Paid petition · Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma, Second Division, No. 119,063 · judgment September 29, 2021


Certiorari denied · October 11, 2022
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether the decisions below violated the Federal Arbitration Act and decades of Court precedent by failing to enforce the express terms of the parties’ Arbitration Agreements; and Whether the decisions below violated the Federal Arbitration Act by delegating the decision as to whether to award attorneys’ fees and costs to the trial court on remand, as opposed to vacating the arbitrator’s award and leaving open the possibility of further proceedings under the Arbitration Agreements.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Gregory Albert Castro
Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippens

For respondent
Minal Gahlot
Rawls Gahlot, P.C.

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 11 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Sep 14 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/7/2022.
  3. Aug 24 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent DJ Koon to respond filed.
  4. Aug 15 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 19, 2022)