United States Ninth Circuit

In a dispute involving the alleged breach of a franchise agreement in the restaurant industry, an order granting defendant-franchisor's motion to remand a petition to confirm an arbitration award and awarding it attorney's fees is affirmed, and an appeal from an order staying plaintiffs' fraud and civil rights claims and compelling arbitration of those claims is dismissed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/14/2006
• Decided 05/02/2006
• Published 05/02/2006

Judges

• HOLLAND, District Judge., Before ARTHUR L. ALARCÓN and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges, and H. RUSSEL HOLLAND, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Frank A. Weiser, Law Offices of Frank A. Weiser, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Adam Pines, Michael M. Berger, and Benjamin G. Shatz, Manatt, Phelps, & Phillips, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellee.