United States Fifth Circuit

The policy of liberal joinder in maritime cases embodied in Fed. R. Civ. P. 14(c) does not supersede the statutory right to enforce contractual arbitration guaranteed by the the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 USC 3.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/01/2001
• Published 03/01/2001

Judges

• EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:, Before GOODWIN, GARWOOD and JONES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• S. Gene Fendler (argued), David W. Leefe, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, LA, Philip G. Eisenberg, Texaco Group Inc., Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Charles M. Steen (argued), Stephen L. Williamson, John Thomas Nesser, IV, Stephanie G. McShane, Steen, McShane & Williamson, New Orleans, LA, for J. Ray McDermott, Inc.