In California, an arbitration award will stand unless the party challenging the decision can show (1) "the award was procured by corruption, fraud, or other undue means"; (2) "the rights of the party were substantially prejudiced by the misconduct of a neutral arbitrator"; or (3) an arbitrator failed to make a timely ...
The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) §10(a) sets forth four statutory grounds for vacating an arbitration award: (1) the award was procured by corruption, fraud or undue means; (2) evident partiality or corruption of the arbitrators; (3) the arbitrators were guilty of prejudicial misconduct during the course of the ...
A court may vacate an award only if it finds that one of the limited grounds in the FAA (9 USC section 10) applies, namely: the award is a result of corruption or fraud; there was evident partiality or corruption by an arbitrator; there was arbitrator misconduct; or.
“The Arbitrator may permit any Party to file a Motion for Summary Disposition of a par- ticular claim or issue, either by agreement of all interested Parties or at the request of one Party, provided other interested Parties have reasonable notice to respond to the request.”
The grounds for attacking an arbitration award under common law are listed; they include fraud, misconduct, and gross unfairness by the arbitrator.
Final answer: The Federal Arbitration Act allows arbitration awards to be set aside under specific grounds, including failure to deliver a final award, fraud, and bias from the arbitrator. The most comprehensive option among those provided includes all these factors.
The Court determined that the parties cannot agree to broader review than that allowed by the Federal Arbitration Act, but the Texas Arbitration Act defines the limits of the arbitrator's authority, which allows the courts to review decisions that are explicitly outside of the law, much like appeals of a judicial order ...
Any party to an arbitration in which an award has been made may petition the court to confirm, correct or vacate the award. The petition shall name as respondents all parties to the arbitration and may name as respondents any other persons bound by the arbitration award.