PLUMMER v. McSWEENEY

No. 18-3059.

941 F.3d 341 (2019)

Jerri PLUMMER Plaintiff-Appellee v. Rhett MCSWEENEY; David Langevin; McSweeney Langevin, LLC Defendants-Appellants Whitney Shoemaker, D.O.; Women's Health and Surgery Center, LLC; Plaintiff Funding Holding, Inc., doing business as LawCash; Vincent Chhabra; Michael Chhabra; LawFirm Headquarters; LLC; Surgical Assistants, Inc.; Wesley Blake Barber; Kasia Osadzinska, M.D.; Boston Scientific Corporation; Alpha Law, LLP; Richard Martindale; John Does, 1-97 (originally named as 1-99); Ron Lasorsa; Diane Sugimoto Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: October 23, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Ray Baxter , James Ryburn Baxter , BAXTER LAW, Benton, AR, George D. Ellis , ELLIS LAW FIRM, Benton, AR, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Jessica Pruitt Koehler , Edwin L. Lowther, Jr. , Michael Alan Thompson , WRIGHT & LINDSEY, Little Rock, AR, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before GRUENDER, ARNOLD, and GRASZ, Circuit Judges.


This case is about the enforceability of an agreement to arbitrate disputes between a law firm and its client. Though we share some of the client's and the district court's concerns about the events giving rise to this lawsuit, we hold that the district court erred in refusing to enforce the agreement. We therefore reverse...

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