Editor’s note: This article describes a hypothetical situation.
The answer to Bob’s arbitration demand included a laundry list of affirmative defenses: waiver, estoppel, license, statute of frauds, immunity, release, statue of limitations, duress, accord and satisfaction, laches, res judicata, and so forth. Didn’t the respondent’s lawyer read the demand? How does the statute of frauds apply in a case where the claimant seeks relief under a contract that both parties indisputably signed? And the respondent is a Fortune 500 company. Can it claim “duress” with a straight face? Bob scratched his head and chalked his adversary’s “strategy” up to habit. Bob figured his adversary copied and pasted the same affirmative defenses into every answer no matter what the arbitration demand said.
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