D.R. Horton, Inc.-Birmingham v. Richard Carlton and Kimberly Carlton (Appeal from Baldwin Circuit Court: CV-23-900320).

Summary

The Alabama Supreme Court reversed the circuit court’s denial of D.R. Horton’s motion to stay the action and compel arbitration, holding that the purchase agreement’s incorporation of the American Arbitration Association rules constitutes a clear and unmistakable delegation of substantive arbitrability to the arbitrator. Accordingly, the trial court erred in deciding the arbitrability issue and the case was remanded for a stay and arbitration.