Sentences with phrase «for vacating arbitration awards»

The court reasoned further that decisions recognizing non-statutory ground for vacating arbitration awards have required something beyond, and different than, a mere error of law or failure on the part of arbitrators to understand or apply the law.

BG Group responded by saying the district and appellate courts assumed that the manifest disregard doctrine was a basis for vacating arbitration awards, but then held that the tribunal in this case did not manifestly disregard the law, rendering moot Argentina's bid for clarity on the issue.

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(b) any appeal of an arbitration award, whether to the arbitrator or the courts, for the purpose of vacating or modifying the award; or

Schulman lost the arbitration, but she successfully vacated the award because the arbitrator failed to disclose that he was handling another arbitration for the law firm representing Ovitz...»

In the decision, The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that a fee award entered against a party for making frivolous arguments and conducting an arbitration in bad faith must be vacated.

Adams then sought legal counsel for the first time, and petitioned the court for an order vacating the arbitration award.