WE CARE HAIR DEVELOPMENT, INC. v. ENGEN

Nos. 97-3908, 98-1475.

180 F.3d 838 (1999)

WE CARE HAIR DEVELOPMENT, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Eric ENGEN, Joel Sundquist, Joann M. Sundquist, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 11, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward W. Dunham (argued), Kevin M. Kennedy, Wiggin & Dana, New Haven, CT, Howard L. Teplinsky, Seidler & McErlean, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

David M. Duree (argued), Reinert & Duree, St. Louis, MO, for Defendant-Appellants.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and BAUER and WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judges.


HARLINGTON WOOD, JR., Circuit Judge.

Defendants-appellants, franchisees of We Care Hair Development, Inc. ("We Care Hair"), appeal from a judgment of the district court ordering them to arbitrate their various state law claims against plaintiff-appellee We Care Hair and enjoining them from proceeding in a pending state court lawsuit.

BACKGROUND

On February 4, 1997, a group of We Care Hair franchisees filed a class action lawsuit in the circuit court...

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