manifest-disregard

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-925 Peter Malkin, et al. v. Virginia Shasha, et al. New York 2026-02-06 Pending arbitration-award circuit-split email-service federal-arbitration-act manifest-disregard service-of-process 1. The first question presented involves the proper scope of review of an arbitration award under the Federal Arbitration Act. The Courts of Appeals …
25-504 Robert Zeidman v. Lindell Management LLC Eighth Circuit 2025-10-23 Denied Amici (1) arbitration-act circuit-split federal-arbitration judicial-review manifest-disregard vacatur Whether the Federal Arbitration Act allows a court to vacate an arbitration decision on the ground that the decision was based on a manifest disregard…
24-192 Izhar Shefer v. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied arbitration due-process eleventh-circuit legal-doctrine manifest-disregard punitive-sanctions Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that an arbitral panel's punitive and dispositive sanctions imposed in disregard of a party's due proces…
24-135 James G. Robinson, et al. v. Armin Azod, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied arbitration-award civil-procedure contract federal-arbitration-act federal-courts forum-clause forum-selection-clause judicial-estoppel manifest-disregard venue venue-selection Whether a litigant's statement accepting 'venue' in a district court can judicially estop that litigant from later seeking to dismiss a new action in …
23A1153 James G. Robinson, et al. v. Armin Azod, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-25 Presumed Complete arbitration attorneys-fees forum-non-conveniens judicial-estoppel manifest-disregard venue Whether judicial estoppel can be applied to prevent a party from challenging venue or forum when the party previously made inconsistent procedural sta…
23-7330 Jessica Graulau v. Credit One Bank, N.A. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied IFP arbitration-agreement arbitrator-powers counterclaim diversity-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act jurisdiction manifest-disregard time-limitations Whether arbitrator exceeded his powers by awarding on a matter not submitted to him
22-6030 In Re Jason Paul Maple 2022-11-09 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-trial-error due-process free-speech jurisdictional-power manifest-disregard pro-se-litigant standing third-circuit-court Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit acted in excess of its jurisdictional power
21-5885 Michael Alan Webb v. Virginia Virginia 2021-10-05 Denied IFP 4th-amendment arbitration-award civil-rights district-court due-process federal-law legal-precedent manifest-disregard motion-to-vacate qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower courts erred in denying the petitioner's Fourth Amendment claims regarding an allegedly unconstitutional search and seizure
20-1615 Colin Masseau, et ux. v. Guy Henning, et al. Vermont 2021-05-19 Denied Response Waived 9-usc-10(a)(3)&(4) arbitration-review contract-of-adhesion due-process federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce manifest-disregard manifest-disregard-of-law motion-to-dismiss notice-pleading Does a court have the right to review an arbitrator's decision for manifest disregard of the law?
20-5541 Betsy Sachs v. Bank of America, N.A. First Circuit 2020-08-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arbitration attorney-conduct civil-rights debt-collection due-process fdcpa foreclosure judicial-procedure manifest-disregard Whether the definition of a 'debt collector' under the FDCPA includes attorneys who select non-judicial foreclosure
19-712 Hamp's Construction, LLC v. Inland Marine Services, L.L.C. Louisiana 2019-12-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-law civil-procedure due-process federal-courts industrial-justice judicial-review manifest-disregard statutory-interpretation statutory-law vacatur Is 'manifest disregard of the law' still a valid basis to vacate or modify an arbitrator's award?
19-6705 Keenan G. Wilkins v. J. Galvin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction arbitration-award civil-procedure dismissal district-court due-process jurisdiction legal-standard manifest-disregard motion-to-strike motion-to-vacate standing Does the Court of Appeal have jurisdiction to decide an appeal before hearing an oral argument by the appellants, and is the appellants' request for I…
18-5931 John Laschkewitsch v. Legal & General America, Inc., dba Banner Life Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights contestability-period contract due-process incontestable-period-violation insurance insurance-authorities insurance-contract insurance-policy-contract manifest-disregard perjury-fraud-on-court policy-interpretation statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitation unfair-claim-settlement unfair-deceptive-trade-practices unfair-practices unfair-trade-practices Whether LGA can rely on a policy never issued or produced