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In most circumstances, the Federal Arbitration Act requires that the losing party move to vacate an arbitration award within three months.  However, the Ninth Circuit recently ruled that the three-month timeline can be tolled, especially for something as significant as the chair lying about being a licensed attorney.

In Move, Inc. v. Citigroup Global Markets…

The Second Circuit reminded us yesterday that judicial review of arbitration awards is “among the most deferential in the law.”  And when district courts are not sufficiently deferential, their decisions are likely to be overturned.  That happened recently in Tom Brady’s “deflate-gate” arbitration, and in an arbitration over how much a pedestrian was owed…