It's always rolling the dice unless it's written in the contract, and that's a huge problem for us. BJ could always make clever arguments against non-contract verbiage. The legal system is not in our favor unless the contract is explicit, leaving no room for interpretation. Trying to win in court will probably be next to impossible with current TA weak language. I'm not even certain that the entire contract doesn't have Remedies sought under arbitration. Section is explicitly arbitration. If the entire TA is implied and executed under arbitration, we might as well forget the idea of it being a "contract" and just call it PEA 2.0. Remember what arbitration got us in 3A. So we need to shoot down TA 1 and make TA 2 bulletproof.


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