TRANSOUTH FINANCIAL CORP. v. BELL

Civil Action No. 96-T-1747-N.

975 F.Supp. 1305 (1997)

TRANSOUTH FINANCIAL CORPORATION, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Ronald A. BELL, Defendant.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division.

August 25, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Fairley McDonald, III, Copeland, Franco, Screws & Gill, P.A., Montgomery, AL, for plaintiffs.

Paul R. Cooper, Darron C. Hendley, Montgomery, AL, for defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, Chief Judge.

This case, commenced with a petition to compel arbitration and for a stay of state-court proceedings, presents the narrow but difficult question of whether this federal lawsuit should be dismissed in favor of the state lawsuit, the answer for which lies at the intersection of two federal laws, the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C.A. §§ 1-16, and the Federal Anti-Injunction Act, 28 U.S.C...

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