5th Circuit Refuses To Change Certified Question, Denies Petition For Rehearing

Mealey's (November 19, 2018, 12:40 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — In a majority decision, the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Nov. 15 voted to deny a petition for rehearing in which a Korean company asked it to reconsider the question it recently certified to the Louisiana Supreme Court of whether a nonresident attachment statute allows for attachment in a suit to compel arbitration and in which it argued that the question would not resolve the issues in the case (Stemcor USA Incorporated v. Daewoo International Corp., No. 16-30984, 5th Cir.)....