United States Third Circuit

The Federal Arbitration Act permits parties to contract for vacatur standards other than the ones provided in the FAA, but a boilerplate choice-of-law provision does not express clear intent to displace the FAA's default regime.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/07/2001
• Published 06/07/2001

Judges

• Before: BECKER, Chief Judge, NYGAARD and AMBRO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Laurence I. Tomar (Argued), Ballow & Tomar, Fairless Hills, PA, Counsel for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Frank C. Botta, Ellen P. Milcic (Argued), Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, LLP, Pittsburgh, PA, Counsel for Appellee.