Legal Opinion
Alan S. Kramer v. Gaines W. Hammond
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 19, 1991No. 1724, 1885, Dockets 91-7178, 91-7412PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:
Respondent Gaines W. Hammond appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Kevin Thomas Duffy, Judge, granting petitioner’s motion to compel arbitration. Hammond also appeals from the district court’s denial of his Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b) for relief from that judgment. For the reasons that follow, we reverse.
BACKGROUND
A. The Facts.
In 1984 Hammond entered into an agreement with a number of California inventors to license a medical device they had invented. This invention, the lithotripter, was designed to break up…
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