The supreme court held that courts may only
overturn arbitration awards for a manifest disregard of a contract provision or a completely irrational result.
But the circuit court — noting that the standard for
overturning an arbitration award is that it was made «in manifest disregard of the law» — concluded that the district court erred by substituting its own decision on the merits for that of the arbitration panel.
The court noted that the party attempting to
overturn an arbitration award bears the burden of proof.
A Massachusetts court has considered whether a member could seek to
overturn an arbitration award based on alleged procedural deficiencies in the hearing.
Maryland law does not require arbitrators to reach the same conclusions as a court of law and only gives courts a limited set of circumstances under which they can
overturn an arbitration award.
The Challengers filed a lawsuit, seeking to
overturn the arbitration award.
Not exact matches
UFT President Michael Mulgrew didn't mince words when he addressed hundreds of angry Transport Workers Union Local 100 members protesting the Metropolitan Transit Authority's attempt to
overturn a binding
arbitration ruling that
awarded transit workers an 11 percent pay increase over three years.
On Wednesday the Caribbean Court of Justice
overturned the decision of Belize's Court of Appeal and ordered Government to pay Belize Bank a little over ninety million dollars, an
arbitration award that was granted to the Bank in 2013.
The Hong Kong Court of Appeal has recently handed down a decision in Pacific China Holdings Ltd v. Grand Pacific Holdings Ltd [1]
overturning an order of the Court of First Instance to set aside an ICC
arbitration award made in Hong Kong.
Editor's Note: Following the
arbitration award to Relocation, the Listing Broker filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to
overturn the result of the
arbitration.
Then, any of the other parties to the original
arbitration hearing will have the opportunity to explain why the
Award of Arbitrators should not be
overturned.
Regarding
arbitration hearings, the court stated that «[i] t is a well - established proposition that our judicial authority to
overturn an arbitrator's
award is limited.
Maine court rejects challenger's argument that the
arbitration award should be
overturned because the panel had failed to issue findings of fact or conclusions of law.
Therefore, an
arbitration award must be confirmed unless the party seeking to
overturn the
award established grounds to vacate or modify it.