SUNKIST SOFT DRINKS, INC. v. SUNKIST GROWERS, INC.

No. 91-9153.

10 F.3d 753 (1993)

SUNKIST SOFT DRINKS, INC., Plaintiff, Del Monte Corporation, Nabisco Brands, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SUNKIST GROWERS, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 30, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emmet J. Bondurant, II, Edward Bryan Krugman, Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, GA, Deseriee A. Kennedy, Robert G. Badal, Wayne M. Smith, Jill F. Cooper, Pepper Hamilton & Scheetz, Martin J. Trupiano, Les J. Weinstein, Graham & James, Los Angeles, CA, for defendant-appellant.

David R. Aufdenspring, Powell Goldstein Frazer & Murphy, P.C., Atlanta, GA, Virginia S. Taylor, Kilpatrick & Cody, Atlanta, GA, George L. Little, Jr., Rodrick J. Enns, J. David Mayberry, Petree Stockton & Robinson, Winston Salem, NC, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before ANDERSON, Circuit Judge and MORGAN and JOHNSON, Senior Circuit Judges.


MORGAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

The appellant appeals the district court's order granting the appellees' motion to compel arbitration pursuant to the Federal Arbitration Act and the denial of appellant's subsequent motion to vacate the arbitration award. We must decide whether a nonsignatory to a contract may invoke an arbitration provision contained therein, and if so, whether appellees' party-appointed arbitrator acted improperly. We AFFIRM the district court's judgment...

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