United States Ninth Circuit

In a case in which a party seeks to vacate an arbitration award, the amount in controversy for diversity jurisdiction is measured by the amount in dispute in the underlying litigation between the parties, and not the amount of the arbitration award.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/05/2003
• Decided 10/20/2004
• Published 10/20/2004

Judges

• Before THOMPSON and TROTT, Circuit Judges, and WEINER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul R. Johnson, Oakland, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul Renne, San Francisco, CA, for the defendant-appellee.