United States Fourth Circuit

When a party comes to federal court seeking to compel arbitration, the presence of a federal question in the underlying dispute is sufficient to support subject matter jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/24/2005
• Published 01/24/2005

Judges

• Before WILKINSON, TRAXLER, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  John Andrew Mattingly, Jr., Baldwin, Briscoe & Mattingly, Chtd., Lexington Park, Maryland, for Appellant.  Christopher Landau, Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Joseph W. Hovermill, Matthew T. Wagman, John C. Celeste, II, Miles & Stockbridge, P.C., Baltimore, Maryland;  Alan S. Kaplinsky, Martin C. Bryce, Jr., Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, L.L.P., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Appellees.