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Miller Canfield

Arbitrator's Power to Alter Discipline Affirmed by Michigan Court, with a Caveat on CBA Clarity

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Can a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) limit the authority of a labor arbitrator to determine the appropriateness of a disciplinary punishment? It can, but only when the CBA clearly says so, reiterated the Michigan Court...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Grounds for Vacating an Arbitration Award Remain Extremely Limited

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision last week upholding an arbitral award, despite the failure of the arbitrators to make certain pertinent disclosures. The case involves an international arbitration...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

How Final Is a Final Award? Turns Out, It Is Difficult to “Escapes!” a Final Arbitration Award in a Construction Conflict

How final is a final arbitration award? In Escapes! To the Shores Condominium Association, Inc., et al. v. Hoar Construction, LLC, and Architectural Surfaces, Inc., the plaintiff condo association argued that an arbitration...more

Felicello Law PC

Avoiding a Punitive Damages Award in Private Arbitration

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New York law is a great boon when it comes to private arbitration. The law is well-developed (and in fact served as the basis for the Federal Arbitration Act); New York is home to a plethora of experienced professional...more

Carlton Fields

Georgia Court of Appeals Reverses Confirmation of Arbitration Award Finding Arbitrator Ignored Contractual Language

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Interstate National Dealer Services, Inc. (“INDS”) challenged an arbitration award pursuant to OCGA § 9-9-13(b)(3), alleging the arbitrators overstepped their authority, and (5) the arbitrator’s manifest disregard of the law....more

White & Case LLP

Dissenting Opinion as violation of public policy? The recent annulment decision of the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt in...

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In a recently published annulment decision, the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt (docket no. 26 Sch 14/18) by way of obiter dictum expressed its views on dissenting opinions in domestic arbitration proceedings. Although the...more

Carlton Fields

Ninth Circuit Affirms Ruling That Successor Is Bound to Collective Bargaining Agreement

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“Although a predecessor collective bargaining agreement does not automatically bind a ‘perfectly clear’ successor, it may if the employer expresses an intent to be bound.” Here, Vectrus Systems Corp. entered into an agreement...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The Law of an Arbitration Agreement: Is it the Law of the Seat or the Law of the Underlying Contract? – Paris Contradicts London

If there is no express law of the arbitration agreement, the law with which that agreement has its closest and most real connection is either the law of the underlying contract or the law of the seat of the arbitration. In...more

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Construction contracts: ambiguities in remeasurement provisions

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Remeasurement provisions are commonly used in construction and engineering contracts where there is uncertainty as to the quantity of work to be performed by the contractor. Remeasurement may be desirable in these situations,...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Federal Appeals Court Vacates Arbitration Award, Concluding Arbitrator Issued Own “Brand of Industrial Justice”

In the field of labor relations, there exist some rare occurrences, things that happen so seldom that it seems as if they are impossible.  As we’ve previously discussed, one such “unicorn sighting” is the NLRB overturning an...more

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"Class Arbitration": Second Circuit Declines to Pull the Plug on Mechanism that SCOTUS Largely Scorns

“Class arbitration” signifies the utilization of the Fed.R.Civ.P. 23 protocol in an arbitration proceeding. A fundamental question among many concerning the legal viability of “class arbitration” is whether an arbitrator can...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Silence Isn’t Always Golden—Sometimes It Lands You in Class Arbitration

As this blog has previously discussed, the availability of class arbitration has been significantly restricted after a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions. However, we have also noted that express preclusion of class...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Confidential Arbitrations Are Not Always Confidential

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In its recent decision, Flock Estate v Flock, 2019 ABCA 194, the Alberta Court of Appeal considered the extent to which evidence and submissions proffered in an arbitration might be admissible in a related court proceeding....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Second Circuit and New York Appellate Division Decisions Affirm Pro-Arbitration Policies

• In Deasang Corp. v. NutraSweet Co., the Appellate Division overturned a ruling by a lower court vacating an arbitral award on the ground that the arbitral panel manifestly disregarded the law. The Appellate Division...more

Jaburg Wilk

Arizona Court of Appeals Holds Insured Waived Objections to UIM Arbitrator’s Alleged Partiality

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The Holding - In Fisher v. USAA Casualty Insurance Company, 2018 WL 3804114 (Ariz. App. Aug. 7, 2018), a case arising from an underinsured motorist (“UIM”) arbitration, the Arizona Court of Appeals affirmed the trial...more

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Is “Class Arbitration” an Oxymoron — a Shoe Drops in the Second Circuit

In a recent series of articles, we asked whether “class arbitration” — meaning the utilization of a Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 class action protocol in an arbitration proceeding — is ultimately viable. Given the nature of...more

Snell & Wilmer

Orchestrating Bias: Arbitrator’s Undisclosed Membership in Philharmonic Group with Pauly Shore’s Attorney Not Grounds to Reverse...

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The California court of appeal recently issued an unpublished decision in Knispel v. Shore, 2017 WL 2492535, affirming a judgment confirming an arbitration award in a real estate dispute involving Pauly Shore. The court of...more

Clark Hill PLC

In 2016 the Texas Supreme Court Continues to Favor Arbitration

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In 2016, the Texas Supreme Court issued three important opinions affecting arbitration agreements. The most significant was Hoskins v. Hoskins, 497 S.W.3d 490 (Tex. 2016). The issue in that case was whether a party seeking to...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

Appellate Court Notes

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Supreme Court Advance Release Opinions: - SC19165 - Dept. of Transportation v. White Oak Corp. - SC19165 Dissent - Dept. of Transportation v. White Oak Corp. Despite a very convoluted history, the essence of...more

Locke Lord LLP

Third Circuit Applies Constructive Knowledge Standard And Finds Waiver Of Arbitration Panel Challenge

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has found that post-award objections to an arbitrator were waived because the party had constructive knowledge of the arbitrator’s insufficient disclosure. The court held that a...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Receivers in Arbitration Proceedings

QUESTION: My client is involved in a partnership dispute. The partnership agreement provides all disputes are to be resolved by binding arbitration. I may want to have a receiver appointed to operate the partnership property...more

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