United States Tenth Circuit

In a dispute over the established exercise price for an option to purchase agreement, dismissal of plaintiff's claim is reversed where defendant-arbitrator is not entitled to arbitral immunity since its appraisal was not an arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/01/2004
• Published 12/01/2004

Judges

• LUCERO, Circuit Judge., Before SEYMOUR, HENRY, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Seth P. Waxman, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, LLP, Washington, D.C. (A. Stephen Hut, Jr., Patrick J. Carome, and David S. Cohen, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, LLP, Washington, D.C.;  Gary F. Bendinger and Lisa R. Petersen, Bendinger, Crockett, Peterson Greenwood & Casey, Salt Lake City, UT, with him on the briefs) for Plaintiff-Appellant Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Company.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kevin T. Baine, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, D.C. (Paul B. Gaffney and Suzanne H. Woods, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, D.C., and James S. Jardine, and Allan T. Brinkerhoff, Ray, Quinney & Nebeker, Salt Lake City, UT, with him on the briefs) for the Defendants-Appellees MediaNews Group Inc. and Kearns-Tribune, LLC., Robert S. Clark, Parr Waddoups Brown Gee & Loveless, Salt Lake City, UT (Brian J. Ramriell and Bently J. Tolk, Parr Waddoups Brown Gee & Loveless, Salt Lake City, UT, with him on the briefs) for Defendant-Appellee Management Planning, Inc.