United States Eighth Circuit

In actions to compel arbitration of state law tort claims arising out of the treatment of defendants' decedents at nursing homes, a grant of defendants' motion to vacate the district court's order compelling arbitration is reversed where Vaden v. Discover Bank, 129 S. Ct. 1262 (2009), did not implicitly overrule the otherwise on-point decisions in Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp., 460 U.S. 1 (1983), and Advance America Servicing of Arkansas v. McGinnis, 526 F.3d 1170 (8th Cir. 2008).

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/14/2010
• Published 05/14/2010

Judges

• LOKEN, Chief Judge., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge,JOHN R. GIBSON and WOLLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Reed Robertson Bates, Birmingham, AL, (Rik Stanford Tozzi, Stephen W. Still, Jr., Birmingham, AL, Kirkman T. Dougherty, Stephanie I. Randall, Fort Smith, AR, Brian Brooks, Arthur W.S. Duff, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Deborah Truby Riordan, Little Rock, AR, (Susan Estes, Little Rock, AR, on the brief), for Appellee.