United States Ninth Circuit

In an appeal turning on the tension between the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. sections 1 et seq. (FAA), and the US Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. sections 101 et seq. and more specifically, a bankruptcy court's jurisdiction to determine dischargeability pursuant to sections 523(a)(2), (4), and (6), the denial of a motion to compel arbitration is affirmed where the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion to compel arbitration because granting the motion would have conflicted with the underlying purposes of the Bankruptcy Code.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/09/2012
• Published 07/09/2012

Judges

• MARBLEY

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel