After six years of litigation, the California Supreme Court denied review of a Court of Appeal decision that affirmed an arbitration award issued in favor of the employer in a hard-fought wrongful termination, associational discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by a former restaurant server. The primary issue was the scope of review of an arbitrator’s award by either the arbitrator or a trial court. The decision affirms that California courts should take a deferential approach to review final, binding arbitration awards and that arbitrators themselves are restricted in modifying their own awards once issued…
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This article was first published in the Arbitration Matters Blog, here. In Angophora Holdings Limited v. Ovsyankin, 2022 ABKB 711, Justice Romaine dismissed an application by an arbitral award debtor to stay...
By Myriam SeersThe AAA is excited to announce the AAAi Podcast! Join us for this monthly series, where Legally Disrupted host Zach Abramowitz and AAA President and CEO Bridget Mary McCormack engage with tech innovators and...
By Bridget McCormack, Zach AbramowitzIn this episode of the Arbitration Conversation, Amy interviews Nicholas Gowen, a litigation partner at Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella in Chicago and experienced arbitrator. https://youtu.be/eAh6Irb6bSg
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