United States Tenth Circuit

In an interlocutory appeal of the district court's denial of defendants' motion to dismiss premised on the existence of an arbitration agreement, the appeal is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction where, to properly invoke appellate jurisdiction under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), the movant must either explicitly move to stay litigation and/or compel arbitration pursuant to the FAA, or it must be unmistakably clear from the four corners of the motion that the movant seeks relief provided for in the FAA.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/10/2009
• Published 11/10/2009

Judges

• EBEL, Circuit Judge., Before LUCERO, EBEL, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Ronald W. Taylor of Venable, LLP, Baltimore, MD, (David E. Strecker, Jessica C. Ridenour, Strecker & Associates, P.C., Tulsa, OK, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellants., Scott F. Brockman (Stanley M. Ward, Woodrow K. Glass with him on the brief) of Ward & Glass, LLP, Norman, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellee.