PERERA v. SIEGEL TRADING CO., INC.

No. 90-3508.

951 F.2d 780 (1992)

Esther PERERA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SIEGEL TRADING COMPANY, INCORPORATED, an Illinois corporation, Frank Mazza and Howard Siegel, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 3, 1992.

As Amended January 16, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Freed, Kenneth Wexler, Much, Shelist, Freed, Denenberg, Ament & Eiger, Chicago, Ill., P. Terrence Buehler, Arthur T. Susman, Terry Rose Saunders (argued), Susman, Saunders & Buehler, Marvin A. Miller, Patrick E. Cafferty, Chertow & Miller, Chicago, Ill., Don Lolli, Beckett & Steinkamp, Kansas City, Mo., for plaintiff-appellant.

Fred A. Smith, William J. Kunkle, Jr. (argued), Steven J. Roeder, Pope & John, William M. Phelan, Thomas F. Burke, Phelan, Doyle, Bolotin & Burke, Lane M. Gensburg, David A. McGuire, Michael L. Siegel, Stone, McGuire & Benjamin, Dennis Bell, James McGurk, Bell & McGurk, Gary Sinclair, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.


HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Esther Perera ("Perera") brought several claims of relief before the district court. The district court ordered Perera to proceed to arbitration of her claims. This appeal raises the question of whether an arbitration order entered as part of a proceeding for other relief is a final appealable decision under the recently enacted amendments to the Arbitration Act.

Perera, along with another plaintiff Alvin Champ ("Champ...

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