Legal Opinion
Kimbrough v. Holiday Inn
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided July 31, 1979No. Civ. A. 78-634, 78-1369PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
DITTER, District Judge.
In this case, defendants present a challenge to an experimental program instituted by the Department of Justice to test the feasibility of compulsory arbitration in civil suits. Plaintiffs, husband and wife, brought this diversity action 1 seeking damages in an amount less than $50,000 for personal injuries allegedly suffered by the wife during an assault when she was a business visitor at defendants’ hotel. Defendants demanded a jury trial as permitted by Fed.R.Civ.P. 38(b). Pursuant to Local Rule 49, however, the case was referred to arbitration.…
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