UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

TENTH CIRCUIT

DEAN WITTER REYNOLDS, INC.,

a Delaware corporation,

Plaintiff - Appellant,

v.

KAREN HOWSAM, individually, and as Trustee for the E. Richard Howsam, Jr., Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust dated May 14, 1982,

Defendant - Appellee.

No. 99-1320

D.C. No. 97-WM-1463

(D. Colorado)

ORDER AND JUDGMENT*

Before EBEL and LUCERO, Circuit Judges, and VRATIL,** District Judge.

The Supreme Court of the United States on December 10, 2002, issued its opinion in Howsam v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., No. 01-800, reversing the opinion of this court in the above-entitled matter and remanding to this court for further proceedings in conformity with the Supreme Court opinion. It was the judgment of the United States Supreme Court that the issue of arbitrability presented in this case was properly submittable to the arbitrator for disposition rather than to the courts. That is consistent with the district court opinion in this case, which had originally dismissed this action.

Accordingly, this matter is now remanded to the United States District Court for the District of Colorado with instructions that that court dismiss the action consistent with its earlier opinion in this case and the United States Supreme Court decision herein.

Entered for the Court

David M. Ebel,

Circuit Judge