United States Tenth Circuit

District court erred in preliminarily enjoining defendant pending arbitration of this contract dispute. Though the parties agreed that any breach of the exclusivity provision would constitute irreparable harm and warrant an injunction, that alone is insufficient to support an irreparable harm finding.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/29/2004
• Published 01/29/2004

Judges

• SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge., Before SEYMOUR, MURPHY and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Donald M. Barnes of Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, LLP, Washington, DC, (Salvatore A. Romano and Brian M. Castro of Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, LLP, Washington, DC;  Thomas E. Downey, Jr., of Downey & Knickerehm, P.C., Denver, CO;  and John Lynch, Jr. of Adams Lynch & Loftin P.C., Bedford, TX, with him on the briefs), for Intervenor-Appellant Word of God Fellowship, Incorporated, in No. 03-1274., Colby M. May and James M. Henderson, Sr., filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana, Inc., et al., John T. Schmidt, Conrad M. Shumadine, Gary A. Bryant and Michael R. Katchmark of Willcox & Savage, P.C., filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of FamilyNet, Inc.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ross W. Wooten of T. Wade Welch & Associates, Houston, TX (T. Wade Welch of T. Wade Welch & Associates, Houston, TX;  and Todd Jansen of Cockrell, Quinn & Creighton, Denver, CO, with him on the briefs), for Defendants-Appellants EchoStar Satellite Corporation and Echosphere Corporation in No. 03-1303., Mark D. Colley of Holland & Knight LLP, Washington, DC (Thomas D. Leland of Holland & Knight LLP, Washington, DC;  and Allan L. Hale and Scott A. Hyman of Hale Hackstaff Friesen, LLP, Denver, CO, with him on the briefs), for Plaintiff-Appellee, Dominion Video Satellite, Inc., in Nos. 03-1274 and 03-1303.