United States Fifth Circuit

In a Jones Act and admiralty matter involving an original injury and subsequent "re-injury" sustained by plaintiff-employee on a tug, orders granting defendant's motion to compel arbitration, denying rehearing, and confirming an arbitration award are affirmed where an arbitration agreement entered into by the parties in 2001 was enforceable and was broad enough for the district court to compel arbitration and allow the arbitrators to determine the agreement's scope.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/26/2007
• Published 01/29/2007

Judges

• GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:, Before GARWOOD, DENNIS and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dennis M. O'Bryan (argued), O'Bryan Baun Cohen, Birmingham, MI, Philip Bohrer, Bohrer Law Firm, Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert H. Murphy, Peter Brooks Sloss (argued), Murphy, Rogers & Sloss, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.