082705P.pdf   09/16/2009  Donaldson Company, Inc.  v.  Burroughs Diesel, Inc.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-2705
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Smith and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - arbitration. Where a district court grants arbitration, its
   application of equitable estoppel presents mixes questions of fact and law
   which, in this circuit, are reviewed de novo; under Mississippi law
   Donaldson, a nonsignatory to the arbitration provision, may not use the
   doctrine of equitable estoppel to compel arbitration with Burroughs.
  
082705P.pdf   07/20/2009  Donaldson Company, Inc.  v.  Burroughs Diesel, Inc.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-2705
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Smith and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
   Civil Case - arbitration. District court's order compelling arbitration
   between nonsignatory and signatory under Dealer Full Service Agreement
   is reversed. Federal substantive law of arbitrability applies. 
   Nonsignatory cannot establish a sufficiently close relationship to
   signatory, claims do not relate to the Agreement, the parties do not have
   a affiliation relationship, and the cross-claim did not rise to the level
   of "substantially interdependent and concerted misconduct."