It is generally accepted that courts may only engage in the very front and very back end of an arbitration. At the outset, courts may determine whether the parties agreed to arbitrate the dispute, and at the end, courts may determine if the arbitration met the basic fairness requirements of the Federal Arbitration Act. However,
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Sixth Circuit Paints Vivid Picture of "Evident Partiality" Sufficient to Vacate Arbitration Award
By Liz Kramer on
Posted in Appealing Arbitration Decisions
One of the very few ways to show evident partiality by an arbitrator is to show the arbitrator had financial ties to a party or witness in the proceeding, another is to show the arbitrator prejudiced a party by reversing a procedural or evidentiary ruling during the hearing. The Sixth Circuit found a Michigan arbitrator…