Ireland v. Charles Dunn Company
Defendants Charles Dunn Company, Inc. (CDC) and Hamid Soroudi appeal from the trial court’s order denying in part their motion to compel arbitration of all claims alleged against them by plaintiffs Christine Petrikas Ireland (Ireland), as an individual and as trustee of the Petrikas Family Bypass Trust and the Petrikas Family Survivor Trust (the Trusts will be referred to collectively as the Petrikas Trusts); Petrikas Family Limited Partnership (the Petrikas Partnership); and 14426 Palmdale Road, LLC (the Palmdale LLC). CDC was the real estate broker for plaintiffs in various real estate transactions, and Soroudi, one of CDC’s real estate agents, acted as plaintiffs’ agent in most of those transactions.
All of plaintiffs’ claims against CDC and Soroudi arise from those transactions, all but one of which were memorialized in purchase agreements containing arbitration clauses, and all transactions purported to be part of tax-deferred exchanges under 26 United States Code sect
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