United States Eighth Circuit

In a product liability action based on defective truck engines, the district court's order compelling arbitration is reversed where defendant was a nonparty to the arbitration agreement and Mississippi law did not permit defendant to enforce the agreement on a theory of equitable estoppel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/16/2009
• Published 09/16/2009

Judges

• BENTON, Circuit Judge., Before SMITH, GRUENDER, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Goss, Joseph F. Yeckel, St. Louis, MO, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Reed Waller Sugg, Bryan Patrick Cavanaugh, St. Louis, MO, Roger James Magnuson, Minneapolis, MN, Richard M. Dye, Robert A. Miller, Jackson, MS, for appellee.