McMAHAN SEC. CO. v. FORUM CAPITAL MARKETS

No. 1595, Docket 94-7087.

35 F.3d 82 (1994)

McMAHAN SECURITIES CO. L.P.; D. Bruce McMahan; John R. Gordon; Saul Schwartzman; McMahan & Company, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. FORUM CAPITAL MARKETS L.P.; Founders Financial Group L.P.; Forest Investment Management L.P.; Michael A. Boyd, Jr.; Michael A. Boyd, Inc.; Michael A. Boyd Pension; Terence M. York; John F. Lepore; Philip R. Platek; Michael F. McNulty; Walter K. McNulty; Steven B. Jones; Thomas Shea, Jr.; Edward Okine; Elizabeth Uhl; Arthur S. Raskin; Martha L. Raskin; Robert Blumenthal; Joyce Blumenthal; Alan D. Bunims; Roderick S. Boyd; Judith E. Doris, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 9, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin H. Green, Stamford, CT (Taggart D. Adams, Paul F. McCurdy, Kelley Drye & Warren, of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Deborah E. Lans, New York City (Fred H. Perkins, David A. Piedra, Morrison Cohen Singer & Weinstein, New York City, Christopher Rooney, Kevin C. Doyle, Carmody & Torrance, New Haven, CT, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before: WALKER and JACOBS, Circuit Judges, and CARMAN, Judge.


WALKER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal addresses the extent to which parties involved in the securities industry must arbitrate certain disputes surrounding the departure of numerous members of an existing securities firm to start up their own securities firm. Plaintiffs filed a multicount complaint in federal district court alleging that defendants violated various federal and state laws by misappropriating certain of plaintiffs' assets when they left plaintiffs' firm...

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