SUN DRILLING PRODUCTS CORP. v. RAYBORN

No. 97-C-2112.

703 So.2d 818 (1997)

SUN DRILLING PRODUCTS CORPORATION v. Jerry J. RAYBORN, Sr.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 30, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Pivach, II, Pivach & Pivach, L.L.C., Belle Chasse, and Douglas Y. Christian, Robert A. Kauffman, Michael P. Walsh, Reed Smith Shaw & McClay, Philadelphia, PA, and Edward D. Wegmann, Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, L.L.P., New Orleans, for Relators.

Peter J. Butler, Peter J. Butler, Jr., Richard G. Passler, Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, L.L.P., New Orleans, and Philip F. Cossich, Jr., Cossich, Martin & Sumich, L.L.C., Belle Chasse, for Jerry J. Rayborn, Sr.

Before KLEES, BYRNES and PLOTKIN, JJ.


BYRNES, Judge.

WRIT GRANTED; RELIEF DENIED.

We grant writs in order to review the trial court's judgment that fraud in the inducement of a contract containing a mandatory arbitration clause is a matter to be decided by the courts of this State rather than by the arbitrator, even where the contract is subject to the Federal Arbitration Act.

This case involves a contract containing a mandatory...

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