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Civil Litigation

Jun. 22, 2017

Plaintiff claims Four Seasons Hotels ducking arbitration in $300M dispute

The owners of the Los Angeles Burton Way Hotels Ltd. filed a scathing motion earlier this week against its manager, Four Seasons Hotels Ltd., arguing that the scope of a Ninth Circuit order remanding portions of a contract dispute between the two parties should be dealt with in arbitration, not district court.

The owners of the Los Angeles Burton Way Hotels Ltd. have accused its manager, Four Seasons Hotels Ltd., of filing a disingenuous motion to compel arbitration in a contract dispute.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals already ruled that both parties will need to arbitrate a dispute over $11 million in attorneys’ fees that Burton Way claims it shouldn’t have paid Four Seasons. But the appellate ruling, which found that a lower cou...

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