Fifth Circuit: Under ordinary principles of agency law, whether drawn from Texas or federal law, Weyand and Thiessen’s roles as the CEO and CFO of the defendant corporations are insufficient to bind them personally to arbitration agreements that the corporations entered into.
By Don Philbin, August 15, 2011
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Fifth Circuit: Under ordinary principles of agency law, whether drawn from Texas or federal law, Weyand and Thiessen’s roles as the CEO and CFO of the defendant corporations are insufficient to bind them personally to arbitration agreements that the corporations entered into. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/09/09-11000-CV0.wpd.pdf
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