The Supreme Court of Texas yesterday held, in two cases, that a defendant didn’t waive its right to arbitrate a dispute between a mobile home manufacturer and a dealer and that a forum selection clause in an agreement for financing leases of magnetic resonance imaging equipment required dismissal. The court, in per curiam opinions and without hearing oral argument, granted mandamus and ordered the district courts, respectively, to compel arbitration, In re Fleetwood Homes of Texas, L.P., No. 06-0943 (Tex. June 20, 2008), and to dismiss in favor of a Pennsylvania forum, In re Lyon Fin. Svcs., Inc., No. 07-0486 (Tex. June 20, 2008).
