United States Eleventh Circuit

Dismissal of petition to compel arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act is reversed as the district court erred in concluding it lacked subject matter jurisdiction. A district court has federal question jurisdiction under 9 U.S.C. section 4 on a petition to compel arbitration if the underlying dispute to be arbitrated itself states a federal question.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/27/2007
• Published 04/27/2007

Judges

• MARCUS, Circuit Judge:, Before CARNES and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and JORDAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John G. Parker, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP, Christopher J. Willis, Daniel D. Zegura, Richard H. Sinkfield, Rogers & Hardin, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Petitioners-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jennifer Auer Jordan, Roy E. Barnes, John Raymond Bevis, The Barnes Law Group, Marietta, GA, for Respondent-Appellee.