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UNITED ASS'N OF JOURNEYMEN v. BECHTEL CONST.

No. 95-16974.

128 F.3d 1318 (1997)

UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN AND APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING AND PIPEFITTING INDUSTRY OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, LOCAL UNION NO. 342, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BECHTEL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, Defendant, and Local 378 International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided November 3, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor J. Van Bourg (argued), Theodore Franklin (on the briefs), Van Bourg, Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, Oakland, CA, for defendant-appellant Local 378.

Morton H. Orenstein (argued), Allen M. Kato (on the briefs), Schachter, Kristoff, Ross, Sprague & Curiale, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellant Bechtel.

John L. Anderson (argued), Carolyn A. Anderson (on the briefs), Neyhart, Anderson, Reilly & Freitas, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before: HUG, Chief Judge, THOMPSON and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.

KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge.

The main issue in this case is whether, when two unions signed an arbitration agreement for jurisdictional disputes but did not fill in the name of the arbitrator, the court could hold them to the agreement and fill in the name.

FACTS

Two unions, a Pipefitters local and an Ironworkers local, signed project agreements, involving numerous other unions as well, to build oil refineries. The project agreements provided that the...

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