United States Eighth Circuit

Summary judgment for a union in a dispute involving the renewal of a collective bargaining agreement is affirmed where the district court did not err in rejecting the company's argument that by withdrawing from the entire collective bargaining agreement it had withdrawn from its binding arbitration clause, and that claims regarding the arbitrator's jurisdiction were procedural should have been submitted to the arbitrator.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/01/2007
• Published 02/01/2007

Judges

• SMITH, Circuit Judge., Before RILEY, HANSEN, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carl A. Gallagher, Douglas M. Greenwald, Ryan B. Denk, McAnany & Van Cleave, Kansas City, KS, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles R. Schwartz, Scott L. Brown, Jane Leslie Williams, Blake & Uhlig, Kansas City, KS, for Appellee.