Legal Opinion
Specialty Healthcare Management, Inc. v. St. Mary Parish Hospital
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 31, 2000No. 99-30977PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
This diversity case arises out of an effort to enforce an arbitral award by a federal order directed at a Parish hospital in Louisiana. Franklin Foundation Hospital appeals the district court’s grant of a writ of execution and an award of attorney fees in favor of Specialty Healthcare Manage*652ment, Inc. because the Louisiana Constitution provides that “no public property or public funds shall be subject to seizure.” We find that Louisiana law here controls; that neither the hospital’s consent to binding arbitration nor its contention in resisting a…
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