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Nature of Suit Code: 850
Nature of Suit: Securities, Commodities, Exchange
Cause of Action: 

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United State~ Court of Appcnils 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS Tenth Circuit 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

JOANNE ROW BLACKBURN, ) 

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Plaintiff-Appellee, ) 

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A.G. EDWARDS & SONS, INC., a ) 

corporation, and JERRY THOMPSON, ) 

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Defendants-Appellants. ) 

MAY 3 1 9 

.ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

No. 89-5148 

(D.C. No. 88-C-1467-B) 

(N.D. Okla.) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before McKAY, ANDERSON, and TACHA, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The case is therefore ordered submitted without oral argument. 

This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a motion 

to compel arbitration of certain federal securities law claims 

which is permitted pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a). See Peterson 

v. Shearson/American Express, Inc., 849 F.2d 464 (10th Cir. 1988). 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

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We have fully considered the written agreement of the parties, the trial court's memorandum and order, the extensive briefs 

of the parties and the cases cited therein. We believe this case 

is governed by Coffey v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., 891 F.2d 261 

(10th Cir. 1989), notwithstanding the slight difference between 

the actual language of the parties' agreement in this case and the 

regulatory language read into the parties' agreement in that case. 

This court's discussion of the requirement that SEC Rule 15c2-2 

automatically modify extant contracts makes clear that, to the 

extent attempts are made to satisfy that rule which fall short of 

its actual terms, those attempts do not exculpate those agreements 

from the binding effect of that rule on contracts executed during 

its life, even after its repeal. 

The decision of the trial court is AFFIRMED. The mandate 

shall issue forthwith. 

Entered for the Court 

Monroe G. McKay 

Circuit Judge 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

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