In Michigan AFSCME Council 25 v. County of Wayne, the Supreme Court of Michigan declined an application filed by Michigan AFSCME Council 25 and Affiliated Local 101 for leave to appeal a judgment of the circuit court and...more
5/31/2024
/ Adverse Employment Action ,
Arbitration ,
Arbitration Awards ,
Arbitrators ,
Employees ,
Employment Litigation ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Labor Disputes ,
MI Supreme Court ,
Standard of Review ,
Unions ,
Vacated
In Huzhou Chuangtai Rongyuan Investment Management Partnership v. Qin, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court order granting summary judgment confirming a Chinese arbitration award totaling...more
In Exclusive Trim Inc. v. Kastamonu Romania, S.A., the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a petition to confirm and enforce a foreign arbitration award issued in an arbitration held before the...more
Donald Kinsella was an employee of defendant Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC. In June 2013, he suffered a work-related injury resulting in his disability and receipt of disability benefits for three years. Baker Hughes’...more
In Iraq Telecom Ltd. v. IBL Bank S.A.L., defendant IBL appealed an order from the district court that denied its application to stay the enforcement of a $3 million arbitration award rendered in favor of plaintiff Iraq...more
Citing the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), and recognizing the specific standards set forth in the FAA for vacating an arbitrator’s decision, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey vacated an arbitrator’s final...more
Relying on the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) and noting that the FAA “enumerates limited grounds on which a federal court may vacate, modify, or correct an arbitral award,” the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona...more
4/10/2023
/ Arbitration ,
Arbitration Awards ,
Counterclaims ,
Cross Motions ,
Federal Arbitration Act ,
Financial Adviser ,
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Motion to Vacate ,
Popular ,
UBS
Recognizing arbitration awards are subject to “very limited review” and should be confirmed, “so long as there is a ‘barely colorable justification’ for the outcome that the arbitrator reached,” the U.S. District Court for...more
Defendant Fork Road, LLC, is the owner of a floor of an office building, which it purchased several years earlier. Plaintiff Mountain Business Center, LLC (MBC) was a tenant in the building at the time of Fork Road’s...more
In Smarter Tools, Inc., v. Chongqing Seni Import & Export Trade Co., Ltd., et al., the Second Circuit affirmed the district court’s order denying Smarter Tools, Inc.’s (STI) petition to vacate an arbitration award and...more
Concluding that the arbitrator did not manifestly disregard contract law or overstep his authority, the Georgia Court of Appeals confirmed the arbitrator’s award and remanded the matter for consideration of an award of...more
This case involves a dispute concerning the use of the name of a family business. The Grewal family managed real estate companies using the name “Singh” in the company name, and the companies obtained a trademark on their...more
Recognizing that it’s “a steep climb to vacate an arbitration award” and that “[c]ourts will disturb an arbitration award only in limited circumstances,” the Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s order...more
Plaintiff Annette Serna appealed from an order of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Serna had brought wrongful termination and related claims against Northrop, including under California’s Fair...more
Defendants Jeffrey M. Smith and Sarah A. Smith appealed from an order of the U.S. District Court for the District of the Virgin Islands. The district court denied the Smiths’ motion to vacate the arbitration award entered...more