United States Fourth Circuit

The physical transfer of the litigation aspects of a case to a different district court does not divest the appellate court of jurisdiction to review the district court's immediately appealable decision to deny defendant's petition to compel arbitration.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/03/2001
• Decided 10/10/2001
• Published 10/10/2001

Judges

• Before TRAXLER and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and THORNBURG, United States District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Daniel Tompkins Brailsford, Robinson, McFadden & Moore, P.C., Columbia, SC, for Appellant. David Ryan Hodnett, Alston & Bird, L.L.P., Atlanta, GA, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  Charles H. McDonald, Robinson, McFadden & Moore, P.C., Columbia, SC, for Appellant.  C. Allen Gibson, Jr., Buist, Moore, Smythe & McGee, P.A., Charleston, SC, for Appellee.