United States Fifth Circuit
Positive Software Solutions, Inc. v. New Century Mortgage Corp., 04-11432
Judgment vacating an arbitration award in a copyright and trade secrets case is vacated insofar as it impermissibly regulated a subsequent arbitration but otherwise affirmed where an arbitrator was required to disclose a previous relationship with counsel in the arbitration because it might have created an impression of possible bias.
Appellate Information
- Decided 01/11/2006
- Published 01/12/2006
Judges
- EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge, joined by E. GRADY JOLLY, PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, W. EUGENE DAVIS, JERRY E. SMITH, RHESA H. BARKSDALE, DeMOSS, DENNIS, EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, PRADO and OWEN, Circuit Judges:, Before JONES, Chief Judge, and REAVLEY, JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM, DAVIS, SMITH, WIENER, BARKSDALE, GARZA, DeMOSS, BENAVIDES, STEWART, DENNIS, CLEMENT, PRADO and OWEN, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Fifth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellees:
- Michael W. Shore (argued), Alfonso Garcia Chan, Shore Chan Bragalone, Dallas, TX, Edward Peter Lazarus, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Sharon N. Freytag (argued), Robin P. Hartmann, Ronald Wayne Breaux, Anne M. Johnson, Haynes & Boone, Ophelia S. Camina, Kenneth E. Gardner, Susman Godfrey, Dallas, TX, for Defendants-Appellants.