United States Sixth Circuit

In a case challenging the validity of an arbitration award where one of the party-selected arbitrators had previously and occasionally served as co-counsel with the attorney representing the intervening plaintiff in the instant case, a judgment confirming the arbitration award and denying a motion to vacate is affirmed as the relationship did not violate the arbitration agreement or rise to the level of evident partiality.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/09/2008
• Published 01/09/2008

Judges

• Before:  SILER, MOORE, and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Fred J. Fresard, Bowman & Brooke, Troy, Michigan, for Appellants.  David R. Skinner, Skinner Professional Law Corp., Bay City, Michigan, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Fred J. Fresard, Bowman & Brooke, Troy, Michigan, for Appellants.  David R. Skinner, Skinner Professional Law Corp., Bay City, Michigan, for Appellee.