Opinion ID: 520359
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Heading: Ill Rev.Stat. ch. 10, p 102(b).

Text: 18 Judge Gomberg, presiding over the proceedings in state court, issued a stay order pending arbitration of the defendant's claims on May 15, 1987, two days after receiving the final brief on the issue of whether the court or an arbitrator should decide the arbitrability question. The stay order declared, in its entirety: 19 This cause coming on to be heard on Defendant's Motion to Stay, upon due notice and upon briefs and arguments for counsel, the Court being fully advised in the premises, it is hereby ordered that the Defendant's Motion to Stay is sustained and that this cause is stayed pending arbitration between the parties. 20 The parties each filed motions for summary judgment in district court following the issuance of the stay order, with the district court granting the defendants' motion for summary judgment and denying PaineWebber's motion for declaratory judgment and cross-motion for summary judgment. In a memorandum opinion and order entered December 30, 1987, the district court concluded that PaineWebber was not entitled to relitigate the arbitrability question, inasmuch as the state court order constituted the law of the case or, in the alternative, that the order was to be given collateral estoppel effect. PaineWebber appeals.