LAW FOR ALL

State courts rather than federal courts are most fre­ quently called upon to apply the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U. S. C. §1 et seq., including the Act’s national policy favoring arbitration. It is a matter of great im­ portance, therefore, that state supreme courts adhere to a correct interpretation of the legislation. Here, the Okla­homa Supreme Court failed to do so. By declaring the noncompetition agreements in two employment contracts null and void, rather than leaving that determination to the arbitrator in the first instance, the state court ignored a basic tenet of the Act’s substantive arbitration law. The decision must be vacatedThe judgment of the Supreme Court of Oklaho­ ma is vacated, and the case is remanded for proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion. It is so ordered. .