United States Second Circuit

Defendant unsuccessfully challenges the district court's judgment confirming an arbitral award in favor of defendant on grounds that 1)defendant never received the disclosure form submitted to the American Arbitration Association, 2) plaintiff's expert witness was impartial, and 3) the arbitrator failed to disclose joint ownership of an airplane with plaintiff's witness.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/03/2004
• Published 08/03/2004

Judges

• FEINBERG, Circuit Judge., Before:  FEINBERG, MESKILL, and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Marjorie Press Lindblom (John M. Desmarais, Alan S. Kellman and Michael G. Strapp, on the brief), Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY, for Petitioners-Appellees., Robert Weems, Baum & Weems, San Anselmo, CA (Jeffrey Pollack, Mintz & Gold LLP, New York, NY, on the brief;  Jerald M. Stein, Law Offices of Jerald M. Stein, New York, NY, on the brief), for Respondent-Appellant.