United States Second Circuit

The Minnesota Sales Representative Act, Minn. Stat. 325E.37, compelling the resolution of certain state-law claims through binding arbitration, does not violate the Seventh Amendment right to trial by jury even when the parties could litigate in federal court through diversity jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/01/2000
• Decided 07/20/2001
• Published 07/20/2001

Judges

• Before:  KEARSE, LEVAL, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Stewart D. Aaron, New York, NY, (Dorsey & Whitney, New York, NY, Michael Iwan, Dorsey & Whitney, Minneapolis, MN, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee., D. Clay Taylor, Minneapolis, MN, (Laurent S. Drogin, Drogin & Drogin, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant.