United States Fourth Circuit

In a dispute over payments for use of a database cataloguing real property features and transactions, denial of motion to vacate a multimillion-dollar arbitration award for defendant is affirmed over claims that: 1) a portion of the award was not drawn from the essence of the underlying agreement; 2) the arbitrator manifestly disregarded relevant law; 3) the award was procured by undue means; 4) the arbitrator was partial; 5) the award was procured by arbitrator misconduct; and 6) the arbitrator exceeded his power in making the award.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/12/2007
• Published 07/12/2007

Judges

• Before WIDENER, WILKINSON, and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Brian Alexander Glasser, Bailey & Glasser, L.L.P., Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellant.  Beverly Johnson, Dorsey & Whitney, L.L.P., Irvine, California, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  William F. Ryan, Jr., John F. Carlton, Kenneth Oestreicher, Paul M. Nussbaum, Whiteford, Taylor, Preston, L.L.P., Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant.   James E. Gray, Stephen E. Marshall, Jason C. Rose, Venable, L.L.P., Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.