LOCAL 637, IBEW v. DAVIS H. ELLIOT CO.

No. 93-1300.

13 F.3d 129 (1993)

LOCAL UNION NO. 637, INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS, AFL-CIO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DAVIS H. ELLIOT COMPANY, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 29, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terry Russell Yellig, Sherman, Dunn, Cohen, Leifer & Yellig, P.C., Washington, DC, argued (Martin J. Crane, Sherman, on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Bayard Easter Harris, The Center for Employment Law, P.C., Roanoke, VA, argued (Doug Henson, on brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before WILKINS, NIEMEYER and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

The deceptively simple question presented on this appeal is whether the court or the arbitrator should decide the question of whether a collective bargaining agreement entitles the union to invoke an interest arbitration clause. The district court held that the issue is one of arbitrability for judicial determination, and we affirm that conclusion.

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Davis H. Elliot Co., Inc., an electrical contracting firm...

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