United States Fifth Circuit

In the context of the question of whether an arbitration award must be vacated for "evident partiality," 9 U.S.C. section 10(a)(2), due to an arbitrator's nondisclosure, the court finds that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) does not mandate the extreme remedy of vacatur for nondisclosure of a trivial past association. The remedy of vacatur is only warranted upon nondisclosure that involves a significant compromising relationship.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/18/2007
• Published 01/18/2007

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.