Munich American Reinsurance Co. v. Crawford

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

The dispute in this appeal is about who will decide the entitlement to a $1.5 million pile of money—arbitrators pursuant to the Federal Arbitration Act (the “FAA”), or the Oklahoma state insurance regulators and courts under the McCarran-Ferguson Act. Or, perhaps, the more specific question is who gets to decide who will decide the entitlement question—the federal courts or the state courts. There are, however, several questions we must address before we reach the ultimate disposition of this appeal. The first question is one of jurisdiction: whether the district…