United States Eleventh Circuit

Previous or concurrent contact between an arbitrator and parties counsel can pose a conflict, necessitating an evidentiary hearing at the district court level to determine the relevant facts and whether such facts were disclosed to the parties.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/13/2002
• Published 09/13/2002

Judges

• TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and BIRCH, Circuit Judges, and GOLDBERG, Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ronald G. Robey,Sarah E. Carson, Smith, Currie & Hancock, LLP, Atlanta, GA; Frank M. Young, III, Haskell, Slaughter & Young, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• James F. Archibald, III, John David Pugh, Anne Marie Seibel, Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, Birmingham, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.