United States Fifth Circuit

Suit by a Philippine national, injured on a chemical tanker ship on the Mississippi River, was properly ordered to arbitration where he signed an employment contract agreeing to arbitrate claims in the Philippines; the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards does not provide an exception for seaman employment contracts.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/04/2002
• Published 06/04/2002

Judges

• REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and REAVLEY and WIENER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James R. Sutterfield (argued), Charmagne A. Padua, Sutterfield & Webb, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David B. Lawton (argued), Kenneth Joseph Gelpi, Jr., Terriberry, Carroll & Yancey, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellees.