Supreme Court of Texas
In Re Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc., 03-1129
A non-signatory to a contract containing an arbitration clause is not required to arbitrate its claim against the signatories of the contract.
Appellate Information
- Argued 12/01/2004
- Decided 05/20/2005
- Published 05/23/2005
Judges
- Chief Justice JEFFERSON delivered the opinion of the Court.
Court
- Supreme Court of Texas
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Jack G. Carnegie, John L. Hagan, Jones Day, Kevin B. Finkel, Johnson Finkel DeLuca & Kennedy, P.C., Houston, for relator., Jeffrey Raizner, Doyle Raizner LLP, Jack F. Burleigh, Houston, Ira E. Hoffman, Grayson Kubli & Hoffman, P.C., McLean, Jeff H. Galloway, John Fellas, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York, NY, for real party in interest., Jeffery T. Nobles, Beirne Maynard & Parsons, L.L.P., Robert Bryan Tobor, Houston, Clint Alexander Corrie, Joseph Lawrence Mira, Bierne, Maynard & Parsons, LLP, Dallas, John D. White, Jones Walker Waechter Poitevent Carrere & Denegre, The Woodlands, for Gulf Coast Holdings Inc.