Javitch v. First Union Securities, Inc.

OPINION

RALPH B. GUY, JR., Circuit Judge.

The brokerage firms and individual brokers named as defendants in four related actions have brought interlocutory appeals from the district court’s denial of their motions to compel arbitration of claims asserted by plaintiff, Victor M. Javitch, as the receiver for Viatical Escrow Services, LLC (VES), and Capital Fund Leasing, LLC (CFL).1 The district court found that Javitch, the receiver, could not be compelled to arbitrate any of the claims against the defendants because (1) Javitch did not personally sign the agreements containing the mandatory…