Opinion
Civil Case No. 05-cv-01233-LTB-MJW.
February 7, 2006
ORDER
On August 19, 2005, the defendant Leonard Cohen filed a motion to dismiss this case for lack of jurisdiction, predicated upon agreements to arbitrate. On October 11, 2005, he filed a motion to compel arbitration on the same grounds. On December 21, 2005, I denied Mr. Cohen's motion to compel arbitration, finding and concluding that the plaintiffs' claims in this case are collateral to the arbitrable subject of the governing arbitration agreement, which Mr. Cohen's agent signed on his behalf as his ostensible agent. The motion to dismiss, containing no other bases for dismissal, must therefore also be denied.
Accordingly, it is ORDERED that the motion to dismiss [15] is DENIED.