arbitration. The Second, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eight, and Ninth Circuits have also held that absent either an express provision in an arbitration clause or statutory authority, courts should not order consolidated arbitration. See, e.g., Champ v. Siegel Trading Co., Inc., 55 F.3d 269 (7th Cir.1995); Government of United Kingdom v. Boeing Co., 998 F.2d 68 (2d. Cir.1993); American Centennial Ins. v. National Casualty Co., 951 F.2d 107 (6th Cir.1991); Baesler v. Continental Grain Co., 900 F.2d 1193 (8th Cir.1990); Del E. Webb Constr. v. Richardson Hosp. Auth., 823 F.2d 145 (5th Cir.1987); Weyerhaeuser Co., 743 F.2d at 635; c.f. Compania Espanola de Petroleos S.A. v. Nereus Shipping, S.A., 527 F.2d 966, 975 (2d Cir.1975), cert. denied, 426 U.S. 936, 96 S.Ct. 2650, 49 L.Ed.2d 387 (1976)(<HOLDING>). Accordingly, regardless of the wisdom of
holding that the district of columbias antislapp law could not be applied in federal court in a diversity case because it conflicted with federal rules of civil procedure 12 and 56 holding in a case where the plaintiff had argued that the district court lacked jurisdiction to amend its judgment more than ten days after entry because that is the time limit under federal rule of civil procedure 59 that a district court can amend its judgment because of mistake or inadvertence months after judgment has been entered pursuant to rule 60b of the federal rules of civil procedure holding that subsequently enacted federal statutes trump the rules of civil procedure holding that a district court could order consolidated arbitration pursuant to federal rules of civil procedure 42a and 81a3 holding that discovery under the federal rules of civil procedure is broad in scope and freely permitted