MERRILL LYNCH PIERCE FENNER & SMITH, INC. v. ADAMS

No. 2D00-1867.

791 So.2d 25 (2001)

MERRILL LYNCH PIERCE FENNER & SMITH, INC., and Thomas Ashman, Appellants, v. Don J. ADAMS, John Aucoin, Edward R. Bassine, Ann T. Bassine, William R. Blaikie, Thomas H. Blundell, J. Patrick Bohn, James A. Campbell. Darrell R. Caudill, William A. Cherry, Hugh W. Curfman, John C. Duncan, Michael S. Dwyer, Dick Dykes, Francis C. Elkin, Richard Fadal, Lee Feinberg, Alan S. Fogg, Mary Lou Frazier, Terry W. Grenat, Hem C. Gupta, Paul Hansen, Keith Harvie, Robert D. Hawley, Charles L. Henritzy, Curtis B. Herbert, Jr., Weldon Heddleston, Dorothy M. Hiddlestron, Les Hurrelbring, Henri V. Jova, John E. Kohan, Bobby G. Lamb, Hazeltine Lamb, Rod Lee, Pat Maloney, Jr., Lee Santa Maria, Lula Santa Maria, Dan E. Martens, Phillip W. Mccollum, Alice S. Mcturk, Ann Michael, Donald R. Mitchell, David C. Morford, Isabelle Morford, Jay Motler, Claude L. Nabers, Leon Neiman, Judith Neiman, Daniel N. Payton, III, Gerald Williams, Jean Pitts, Gary L. Platner, Suraj P. Sancheti, Sam Schenk, Arch H. Schrom, Therral Story, Ronald T. Ullenberg, Paul G. White, Robert J. Wilder, Butz Wilder, Paul A. Williams, CCT & Co., a partnership, Catherine Crebbs, as general partner of CCT & Co. and administratrix of estate of Robert W. Crebbs, Robert Stern, Gordon G. Stillwell, and Edward B. Walker III, as general partner of CCT & Co., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

April 6, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett Falk and Alexander T. Sarafoglu of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Miami, for Appellants.

Thomas R. Grady of Grady & Associates, L.P.A., Naples, for Appellees.


GREEN, Judge.

Appellants, Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc. and Thomas Ashman, contend that the trial court erred by issuing a nonfinal order denying their motion to dismiss and sever and finding that the claims of appellees, Don J. Adams, et al., were eligible for arbitration. We have jurisdiction pursuant to Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure 9.130(a)(3)(A) and (a)(3)(C)(v).

We affirm the trial judge's order denying the appellants' motion to...

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