Eleventh Circuit Holds That “Notice of a Motion to Vacate” Under FAA Cannot Be Accomplished by Email……

After an arbitration resulted in an award that included more than $650,000 in attorneys’ fees, the liable party filed a motion to vacate that portion of the award in a federal district court. The attorney for that party, however, only emailed opposing counsel a “courtesy copy” of the 20-page memorandum in support of the motion to vacate and did not formally serve the motion itself until a few weeks later — beyond the FAA’s three-month deadline to seek vacatur of an award. The district court denied the motion to vacate and confirmed the arbitration award, reasoning that the defending party had not consented to service by email, and as a result, there was no timely service of the motion to vacate the award.

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