IERNA v. ARTHUR MURRAY INTERN., INC.

No. 86-5804.

833 F.2d 1472 (1987)

F.F. "Dusty" IERNA, P.Y. Costello, Inc., a Florida corporation, Richard S. Wilbur, Orlando Dance Studio Corp., a Florida corporation, Altamonte Springs Dance Studio Corp., a Florida corporation, Joseph P. Davenport, Tony D. Fudge, Tee Dee of St. Petersburg, Inc., a Florida corporation, Corporation 101, a Florida corporation, Corporation 102, a Florida corporation, Leslie Herman, Dance Studios of Charleston, Inc., a South Carolina corporation, Daniel Caballero, Wanda Mattox, Mattox Enterprises, Inc., a Louisiana corporation, Jacqueline Walls, T.A.A.M., Inc., a Georgia corporation, Town & Country of Baton Rouge, Inc., a Louisiana corporation, Jacques Debeve, Rosalyn Debeve, P.A.M., Inc., an Arizona corporation, T.A.M., Inc., an Arizona corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ARTHUR MURRAY INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Delaware corporation, Sam Costello, George Theiss, Charles Pistole, Harold Plummer, James Banta, Philip Masters, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 14, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving Morris, Newark, N.J., Franzblau & Falkin, P.A., S.M. Chris Franzblau, Greenberg, Margolis, Ziegler, Schwartz, Dratch, Fishman, Franzblau & Falkin, P.A. Roseland, N.J., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Marc P. Seidler, Rudnick & Wolfe, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before VANCE and CLARK, Circuit Judges, and GARZA, Senior Circuit Judge.


VANCE, Circuit Judge:

This case involves an award by an arbitration panel of attorneys' fees to the prevailing party. This appeal presents the issues of whether the attorneys' fees award is integral or collateral to the decision on the merits, and whether the district court properly remanded the case to the arbitrators to determine the amount of costs and expenses to be awarded. We defer to the arbitration panel's interpretation of the arbitration provisions in the...

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