SPEAR, LEEDS & KELLOGG v. CENTRAL LIFE ASSUR. CO.

No. 331, Docket 95-7372.

85 F.3d 21 (1996)

SPEAR, LEEDS & KELLOGG, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CENTRAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, Alexander Hamilton Life Insurance Company of America, Inc., Canada Life Assurance Co., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 16, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Michael Vaughan, Kansas City, Missouri (Heidi R. Youngs, Weisenfels & Vaughan, Kansas City, Missouri; John J. Phelan, III, New York City, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellants.

Howard Schiffman, New York City (Woody N. Peterson, Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, New York City, and Washington, DC; David Yeres, Rogers & Wells, New York City, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before CARDAMONE and MAHONEY, Circuit Judges and POLLACK, District Judge.


Judge POLLACK dissents in a separate opinion.

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

On this appeal from the grant of a preliminary injunction enjoining arbitration, issued by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Duffy, J.), we are asked to decide whether plaintiff Spear, Leeds & Kellogg (plaintiff, broker, or Spear, Leeds), a member of the New York Stock Exchange (N.Y.SE or Exchange), is required under the Exchange's Constitution...

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