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Belnap v. IASIS Healthcare, 844 F.3d 1272 (10th Cir. Jan. 5, 2017)

The plaintiff had signed an agreement with one of the defendants that contained the following provision regarding arbitration:  ”The arbitration shall be administered by JAMS and conducted in accordance with its Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures, except as provided otherwise herein.”  The Tenth Circuit held that the parties to the agreement clearly and unmistakably intended to arbitrate arbitrability of the claims when they incorporated the JAMS Rules into the agreement.