Alternative Dispute Resolution,
Law Practice
Mar. 3, 2022
Handling the hot potato of ‘manifest disregard of the law’
It seems to have first shown its face in 1953 and, as the great poet said, “not with a bang, but a whimper” — a federal appeals court was faced with a question that really had nothing to do with “manifest disregard of the law” as grounds for vacating an arbitration award.
Fred Bennett
Email: fredgbennettADR@outlook.com
1946-2022. Experienced international and domestic arbitrator and mediator, fellow with the College of Commercial Arbitrators, member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals and the ICC Commission, former head of arbitration at Quinn Emanuel and Gibson Dunn.
It seems to have first shown its face in 1953 and, as the great poet said, "not with a bang, but a whimper." In
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