United States Second Circuit

District court's vacating of an arbitration award due to arbitrator's manifest disregard of the law is reversed where 1) the court should not have permitted defendant to depose the arbitrator regarding reasoning and decision-making processes, and 2) the arbitrator neither manifestly disregarded the law nor exceeded his powers.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/03/2003
• Published 09/03/2003

Judges

• B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge., Before:  B.D. PARKER, Jr. and RAGGI, Circuit Judges, and GOLDBERG, Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Louis B. Kimmelman (Marissa Molé, on the brief), O'Melveny & Myers LLP, New York, NY, for Petitioners-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• James T. Shearin, Pullman & Comley, LLC, Bridgeport, CT, for Respondents-Appellees.