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173768P.pdf 02/06/2019 Meierhenry Sargent LLP v. Bradley Williams
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 17-3768
U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Sioux Falls
[PUBLISHED] [Stras, Author, with Colloton and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Arbitration. Order dividing the defendants' counterclaims
into arbitrable and non-arbitrable categories was appealable as it
amounted to an injunction against arbitration of some of the
counterclaims; the district court did not err in determining that
counterclaims seeking to reduce or eliminate the fees defendants owed the
firm were within the scope of the arbitration provision and that
counterclaims seeking something else - such as money from the firm - were
not; the court erred, however, in deciding that the defendants terminated
the relationship as that issue should be left to the arbitrators to
decide.