United States Fifth Circuit

Where a suit does not seek to enforce any duty arising out of a shareholder agreement, and seeks no relief that would frustrate any right to arbitration under it, a nonsignatory to an arbitration clause cannot compel arbitration based merely on an agency argument. (Revised opinion)

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/18/2002
• Published 08/13/2002

Judges

• PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, WIENER, and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Damon Grant Cook,Robert Lee Galloway, Hunter M. Barrow, Thompson & Knight, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard A. Sheehy, Raymond A. Neuer, Sheehy, Serpe & Ware, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.