PeopleConnect, Inc. v. Barbara Knapke

Under the Federal Arbitration Act, when a motion to compel arbitration is denied, the party seeking arbitration may file an immediate appeal of that decision. This case concerns the legal standard for stays of district court proceedings pending appeal of denials of motion to compel arbitration. The question presented is: Does a non-frivolous appeal of a denial of a motion to compel arbitration divest district courts of jurisdiction, causing proceedings to be stayed automatically, as the Third, Fourth, Seventh, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits have held, or does the appealing party have to satisfy the traditional discretionary test for a stay, as the Second, Fifth, and Ninth Circuits have held?