20 20 COMMUNICATIONS INCORPORATED v. BLEVINS (2018)

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

20/20 COMMUNICATIONS, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Randall BLEVINS; Kathy Digruilles; James Cobble; Brina Healy; Julia Mucheke-Barrett; Peter Saldoriga; Loren Simpson; Charles Smith; Benjamin Stanczik; Freddie Tubbs; Kyil Waits; Deborah Buffamanti; David Vine; Juan Castillo; Lennox Crawford; Thomas Demiris; Kimberly Koppelman; Redwan Negash, Defendants-Appellees

No. 17-10160

Decided: February 05, 2018

Before WIENER, ELROD, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.

Gavin Samuel Martinson, Jeremy William Hays, Andrew Thomas Turner, Attorney, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., Dallas, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant Andrew Ross Frisch, Esq., Morgan & Morgan, P.A., Plantation, FL, Jimmy Derek Braziel, Lee & Braziel, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, for Defendants-Appellees

20/20 Communications appeals the order denying a preliminary injunction that would have prevented the defendants from arbitrating their claims against the plaintiff as a class and from asking an arbitrator to determine the availability of class arbitrations. Under the Federal Arbitration Act, with limited exceptions inapplicable here, we are not permitted to consider appeals from interlocutory orders that refuse to enjoin arbitrations. 9 U.S.C. § 16(b)(4) (2012).

We DISMISS for lack of jurisdiction.

FOOTNOTES

FOOTNOTE.

PER CURIAM: * FN* Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.

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