Bank One NA v. Harrington

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT __________________________ Consolidated Case Nos. 01-60543, 01-60544, 01-60545, 01-60546, 01-60547, 01-60548, 01-60549, 01-60550, 01-60551, 01-60552, 01-60553, 01-60554, 01-60555, 01-60556 __________________________ BANK ONE, N.A., Plaintiff-Appellee, versus WILLIE QUINN, JAMES BIRDSONG, ANNIE WHEELER, ROBERT JACKSON, PERCY CATCHINGS, RICKY DILLON, QUAKO CURTIS, MARGARETTA LOFTON, ELOISE TILLIS, JAMES TILLIS, DAIRY STRICKLAND, TRENTICE WILSON, WILLIE MCRUNNELS, GERTRUDE MILLER, AND RUBY HARRINGTON Defendants-Appellants. ___________________________________________________ Appeals from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (3:01-CV-65-BN) ___________________________________________________ July 18, 2002 Before WIENER, E. GARZA, and PARKER, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM1: Appellants challenge the district court’s rulings granting Bank One’s motions to compel arbitration and denying their motions for abstention and dismissal, discovery, and a jury trial. These cases are indistinguishable from those that we reviewed and ruled 1 Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R. 47.5.4. 1 on in the related cases of Bank One, N.A. v. Boyd2 and Bank One, N.A. v. Lake.3 For essentially the same reasons that are set forth in our opinion in Boyd and in the district court’s opinion in Bank One, N.A. v. Coates,4 the judgments of the district court in these cases are, in all respects, AFFIRMED. 2 288 F.3d 181 (5th Cir. 2002). 3 No. 01-60051 (5th Cir. April 5, 2002) (unpublished). 4 125 F.Supp.2d 819 (S.D. Miss. 2001). 2