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Arbitration 101: A Reminder that Review of Arbitral Awards is Narrow

By Henry Allen Blair on February 19, 2019
Posted in ArbitrationNation Roadmaps (primers)

Pick up any textbook or treatise on arbitration law, and you’ll find the same thing in the chapter on enforcing arbitral awards: courts cannot conduct a merits review of awards. Courts, in other words, do not second guess the conclusions of the arbitrators about law or facts.

Or at least they’re not supposed to do…

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