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[5] The party applying for the confirmation must do so in the proper federal court within one year after the arbitrator's decision.

If citing to a decision of the New York Court of Appeals, your parenthetical should include ONLY the year the decision was published. If citing to a decision of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, did you identify the Department that decided the case in your court and date parenthetical?

A party may seek an order vacating or correcting an award within 100 days from the date the petitioner was served with the award. However, if the petitioner has filed a motion to confirm the award, the opposing party must file a response within 10 days of being served with the petition to confirm.

The citation (for legal documents) looks like this: Donnino, Practice Commentary, McKinney's Cons Laws of NY, Book 39, Penal Law § 125.00. <Author's last name>, Practice Commentary, McKinney's Cons Laws of NY, Book <book number from spine of book>, <subject> <statute section>.

Instead, if a party wins in the arbitration and the other party does not do what the award says, the winning party may go to court to ?confirm? the arbitration award. Under AAA rules, parties to AAA cases agree that the arbitration award can be entered as a judgment in any federal or state court with jurisdiction.

Whenever you ask a court to step into a dispute involving an arbitration, you have to file a type of suit called a special proceeding. The court will schedule a hearing on your request and, unless circumstances warrant a court's refusing to confirm the award, the court will issue a judgment confirming the award.