United States Second Circuit

A signatory is estopped from avoiding arbitration with a non-signatory when the issues the nonsignatory is seeking to resolve in arbitration are intertwined with the agreement that the estopped party has signed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/19/2001
• Published 11/19/2001

Judges

• JACOBS, Circuit Judge., Before:  FEINBERG, JACOBS, and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey Gilmore, Wickwire Gavin, P.C., Vienna, VA, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., (Michael F. Maschio and Susan Schick, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee., Mark Friedman, Debevoise & Plimpton, New York, N.Y. (David W. Rivkin and Mark W. Friedman, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant.