United States Eleventh Circuit

In an appeal from the an order reducing the amount defendant owed to plaintiff under an arbitral award, the order is affirmed where: 1) the reduction of the award did not violate the law of the case doctrine; and 2) Section 13 of the Federal Arbitration Act provides that a judgment which has confirmed an award is to be treated no better or worse than any other civil judgment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/18/2009
• Published 08/18/2009

Judges

• EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA, Chief Judge, and EDMONDSON and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Clyde O'Neal Westbrook, III, James A. Harris, Jr., Harris & Harris, LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiffs.


• For Appellees:
  
• Scott Burnett Smith, Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, LLP, Huntsville, AL, Bernard J. Rhodes, Lathrop & Gage, LC, Kansas City, MO, for Defendant.