DREWS DISTRIBUTING, INC. v. SILICON GAMING, INC.

No. 00-1643.

245 F.3d 347 (2001)

DREWS DISTRIBUTING, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SILICON GAMING, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 29, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Thomas Louis Stephenson, NEXSEN, PRUET, JACOBS & POLLARD, L.L.P., Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellant.

Robert L. Widener, MCNAIR LAW FIRM, P.A., Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.

ON BRIEF: Benjamin E. Nicholson, V, MCNAIR LAW FIRM, P.A., Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.

Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, MOTZ, Circuit Judge, and HALL, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sitting by designation.


OPINION

DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ, Circuit Judge:

This appeal arises from a dispute over the purchase of video gambling machines. We must determine the scope of an arbitration provision in a distribution contract between the manufacturer and distributor of the machines. That provision requires the parties to arbitrate "any controversy or claim" that is "related to" the distribution contract. The district court held the present dispute not arbitrable because it...

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