McLAUGHLIN GORMLEY KING CO. v. TERMINIX INTERN. CO.

No. 96-1619.

105 F.3d 1192 (1997)

McLAUGHLIN GORMLEY KING COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TERMINIX INTERNATIONAL COMPANY, L.P., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided January 29, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell S. Pinsly, Philadelphia, PA, Thomas H. Crouch, Minneapolis, MN, for appellant.

Lindsay G. Arthur, Jr., Scott H. Rauser, Minneapolis, MN, for appellee.

Before BEAM, FRIEDMAN, and LOKEN, Circuit Judges.


LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

The main issue on this appeal is whether a court or an arbitrator should determine whether the parties' commercial dispute is arbitrable. Agreeing with the district court1 that the contracting parties left that issue to the court, we affirm.

In 1984, McLaughlin Gormley King Company ("MGK") agreed to supply fenvalerate, an insecticide, to Terminix International Company for repackaging and sale to exterminators...

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