Supreme Court of California

Under the California Arbitration Act, judicial review of the merits of an arbitration award is permissible where the contracting parties have expressly agreed that the arbitrators shall have no power to commit errors of law and that the award may be vacated or corrected on appeal for legal error.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/25/2008
• Published 08/25/2008

Judges

• CORRIGAN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Beatie and Osborn and Daniel A. Osborn, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Reed Smith, Margaret A. Grignon, Andrew E. Paris, Los Angeles;  Kirkland & Ellis, Michael E. Baumann, Los Angeles, and Becca Wahlquist, for Defendant and Respondent., Horvitz & Levy, Barry R. Levy, Jeremy B. Rosen and Alicia A. Pell, Encino, for L.F.P., Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.