SUAREZ-VALDEZ v. SHEARSON LEHMAN/AM. EXPRESS

No. 87-5712.

845 F.2d 950 (1988)

Humberto SUAREZ-VALDEZ, Acerus Suarez, S.A., a Panamanian corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SHEARSON LEHMAN/AMERICAN EXPRESS, INC., a Delaware corporation, Alejandro Lacayo, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

May 23, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Curtis Carlson, Fowler, White, Burnett, Hurley, Banick & Strickfoot, P.A., Kathy M. Klock, Miami, Fla., for defendants-appellants.

Katz, Barron, Souitero, Linden & Faust, Robert Grady, Miami, Fla., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before TJOFLAT and HILL, Circuit Judges, and HALL, District Judge.


HILL, Circuit Judge.

Pursuant to Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. v. Byrd, 470 U.S. 213, 105 S.Ct. 1238, 84 L.Ed.2d 158 (1985) and Shearson/American Exp., Inc. v. McMahon, ___ U.S. ___, 107 S.Ct. 2332, 96 L.Ed.2d 185 (1987), the defendants moved the district court to stay this action pending the arbitration required by the parties' agreements. While the district court did stay the trial pending arbitration, it did not stay proceedings...

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