DOUGLAS v. REGIONS BANK

No. 12-60877.

757 F.3d 460 (2014)

Shirley DOUGLAS, Successor in Interest of Schwartz & Associates, P.A. and Interstate Fire & Casualty Company, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. REGIONS BANK, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 7, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip William Thomas (argued), Law Offices of Philip W. Thomas, P.A., Jackson, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Emerson Barney Robinson, III (argued), Butler Snow, L.L.P., Ridgeland, MS, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before SMITH, DENNIS, and HIGGINSON, Circuit Judges.


JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

In August 2002, Shirley Douglas opened a checking account with Union Planters Bank and signed a signature card binding her to arbitration. The arbitration provision included a clause (the "delegation provision") delegating the question of a dispute's arbitrability to an arbitrator. Douglas's account was closed less than a year later. Union Planters Bank ("Union Planters") merged with Regions Bank ("Regions") in June 2005.

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