JONES v. HALLIBURTON CO.

No. 08-20380.

583 F.3d 228 (2009)

Jamie Leigh JONES; Joseph Daigle, Plaintiffs, Jamie Leigh Jones, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HALLIBURTON CO., doing business as KBR Kellogg Brown & Root; KBR Technical Services, Inc.; Overseas Administrative Services, Ltd.; Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc.; Kellogg Brown and Root International, Inc.; Kellogg Brown & Root, LLC; Kellogg Brown & Root S De R L; Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc.; KBR, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 15, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lannie Todd Kelley, Kelly Law Firm, Paul F. Waldner, Vickery, Waldner & Mallia, Houston, TX, Andre M. Mura, John Vail (argued), Center for Constitutional Lit., Washington, DC, for Jones.

Shadow M. Sloan, W. Carl Jordan (argued), Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before BARKSDALE, DeMOSS and STEWART, Circuit Judges.


RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:

This interlocutory appeal from a partial refusal to compel arbitration concerns the arbitrability vel non of tort claims by an employee who, while working at an overseas location, was allegedly gang-raped by her co-workers in her bedroom in employer-provided housing. Halliburton Company/Kellogg Brown & Root, and various affiliates (Halliburton/KBR), contest the denial, in part, of their motion to compel arbitration...

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