evident-partiality

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-660 Grupo Unidos por el Canal, S.A., et al. v. Autoridad del Canal de Panama Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied arbitration arbitrator-impartiality disclosure disclosure-requirements evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act reasonable-impression-of-partiality vacatur What is the standard for determining whether an arbitrator's failure to disclose constitutes evident partiality justifying vacatur of the arbitral awa…
23-506 Occidental Exploration and Production Company v. Andes Petroleum Ecuador Limited Second Circuit 2023-11-14 Granted Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirement evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-precedent second-circuit Whether an arbitrator's failure to disclose a relationship evinces evident partiality
23-322 Affordable Care, L.L.C. v. Raeline K. McIntyre, DMD, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitrator-bias bias circuit-split confirmation disclosure-requirements discovery evident-partiality judicial-review reasonable-impression Where an arbitrator and opposing counsel fail to disclose significant connections, does a party just have to show the 'reasonable impression' of bias …
20-895 Scott Seldin, Individually and as Trustee of the Selden 2002 Irrevocable Trust, dated October 9, 1993, et al. v. Estate of Stanley C. Silverman, et al. Nebraska 2021-01-07 Denied actual-bias arbitration-award arbitration-awards evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-review public-policy statutory-interpretation vacatur Whether the FAA categorically forecloses courts from vacating an arbitration award on the ground that the award is contrary to public policy
20-4 Rosanne L. Woodroof v. Joseph F. Cunningham, et al. District of Columbia 2020-07-09 Denied arbitration-contract arbitrator-replacement arbitrator-resignation circuit-split contract-rewrite evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act section-5 Is it a violation of the Federal Arbitration Act for a state court to dismiss an arbitration due to the resignation of an arbitrator so that a pending…
19-1333 Monster Energy Company, fka Hansen Beverage Company v. City Beverages LLC, dba Olympic Eagle Distributing Ninth Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-awards bias circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirements disclosure-rule evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-standard standard standard-of-review What is the standard for determining 'evident partiality' under the Federal Arbitration Act?