United States First Circuit

In a lawsuit alleging various contract and tort claims related to what plaintiff described as a raid on its workforce subsequent to a failed take-over attempt by its erstwhile business partner-defendant, denial of defendant's motion to stay the proceedings and compel arbitration is affirmed where the district court properly found that plaintiff's claims do not fall within the scope of the parties' arbitration agreement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/01/2008
• Published 02/01/2008

Judges

• STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, SELYA and STAHL, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ronald W. Schneider, Jr., with whom Bernstein Shur Sawyer & Nelson were on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas G. Rohback, with whom James J. Reardon, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP, John J. Aromando and Pierce Atwood, LLP, were on brief, for appellee.