Law360, New York ( April 29, 2014, 1:08 PM EDT) -- Courts in California continue to rely on the equitable and third-party beneficiary principles discussed in JSM Tuscany LLC v. Superior Court[1] and Crowley Maritime Corp. v. Boston Old Colony Ins. Co.,[2] as the basis for extending a contractual obligation to arbitrate to nonsignatories of an arbitration agreement. The Southern District of California's decision in City of Riverside v. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.[3] is just one recent example of courts' willingness to find exceptions to the general rule in California that one must be a party to an agreement to arbitrate in order to be bound by it or to bind others....
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