clauses any differently than other contracts. See Doctor’s Assoc., Inc. v. Casarotto, 517 U.S. 681, 686-87, 116 S.Ct. 1652, 1656, 134 L.Ed.2d 902 (1996) (“Courts may not, however, invalidate arbitration agreements under state laws applicable only to arbitration provisions”) (emphasis in original); Allied-Bruce Terminix Co. v. Dobson, 513 U.S. 265, 281, 115 S.Ct. 834, 130 L.Ed.2d 753 (1995) (FAA makes unlawful any state policy that “would place arbitration clauses on an unequal ‘footing’ ”). Because Alabama law only requires the contract to be signed (and only certain contracts at that), and does not require every single provision of every contract to be signed, it could not require the arbitration clause at issue here to be signed. Doctor’s Assoc., 517 U.S. at 682-84, 116 S.Ct. at 1654 (<HOLDING>). Stiles assented to the contract as a whole in
holding that montana law requiring all arbitration provisions to be typed in underlined capital letters was preempted because congress precluded states from singling out arbitration provisions for suspect status holding that a contracts choiceoflaw provision did not determine the scope of an arbitration clause holding that montana law cannot require special notice provisions in arbitration contracts holding that contracts should be interpreted to give effect to all provisions holding membership in new york stock exchange with concomitant obligation to be bound by arbitration provisions of its constitution and rules sufficient to constitute consent to arbitration of covered disputes whether or not arbitration provisions are specifically incorporated in contract