A Pivotal Ruling For Appellate Arbitration Award Enforcement

By Albert Bates and Zachary Torres-Fowler (March 11, 2019, 4:39 PM EDT) -- In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court in Hall Street Associates LLC v. Mattel Inc. determined that parties may not contractually agree to expand judicial review of arbitral awards beyond the grounds set forth in the Federal Arbitration Act, or FAA.[1] In the aftermath of the Hall Street decision, the American Arbitration Association issued its "Optional Appellate Arbitration Rules," a set of optional procedures designed to permit parties to appeal arbitration awards to three-arbitrator appellate panels....

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