Rodney McCauley Jeri McCauley Garrison McCauley Madison McCauley and Whitney McCauley v. Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., a Delaware Corporation

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that the majority courts are “more solicitous regarding [the] duty to protect the benefits of arbitration from erosion.”
• noting \general rule that filing an appeal divests the district court of its control over those aspects of the case involved in the appeal\
• “[w]hen an interlocutory appeal is taken, the district court only retains jurisdiction to proceed with matters not involved in that appeal.”
• “Arbitration clauses reflect the parties’ preference for non-judicial dispute resolution, which may be faster and cheaper.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “so long as the district court takes the affirmative step of certifying an appeal as frivolous or forfeited, it retains jurisdiction.”
• automatic divestiture of trial court jurisdiction unless appeal is frivolous or forfeited

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).