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WELLS v. CHEVY CHASE BANK

No. 22, Sept. Term, 2000.

768 A.2d 620 (2001)

363 Md. 232

Dale WELLS et al. v. CHEVY CHASE BANK, F.S.B. et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 8, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Paul Bland, Jr. (Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, P.C., of Washington, D.C.; John T. Ward and Thomas J. Minton of Ward, Kershaw & Minton, P.A., Baltimore, and Michael P. Malakoff of Malakoff, Doyle & Finberg, P.C., Pittsburgh), all on Brief, for appellants.

David J. Cynamon (Shaw Pittman, on brief) Washington, D.C., for appellees.

Walter E. Laake, Cary J. Hansel, Joseph, Grenwald & Laake P.A.. Greenbelt, brief of the Maryland Trial Lawyers Assn. filed on behalf of the appellants, amicus curiae

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL and HARRELL, JJ.

RODOWSKY, Judge.

This appeal was taken from an order compelling arbitration. A preliminary procedural issue is whether Maryland law, which authorizes such appeals, has been preempted by 9 U.S.C. §§ 1 through 16, the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). The substantive issue is whether the appellants, plaintiffs below, agreed to arbitrate. As explained below, we shall answer each issue in the negative.

The plaintiffs are Dale Wells of Ellicott City, Maryland...

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