Baker McKenzie’s Arbitration Yearbook 2018-2019 Edition
Click here for the chapter on the United States in the 2018-2019 Arbitration Yearbook.
Arbitration News from the United States
District court enters default judgment against a foreign sovereign thereby confirming the arbitral award...
DIGOIL v. Democratic Republic of Congo, No. 20-cv-1130 (RJL) (D.D.C. Sept. 14, 2021)
Factual Background
In 2007 and 2008, DIGOIL, a South African oil exploration...
District court applies balancing test to determine whether to enforce an arbitration award or...
Cube Infrastructure Fund Sicav v. Kingdom of Spain, No. 20-cv-1708 (EGS) (D.D.C. May 17, 2021)
Cube Infrastructure Fund SICAV, Cube Infrastructure Managers S.A., Cube...
District court grants petition to compel arbitration where existence of arbitration agreement was in...
Spliethoff Transport B.V. v. Phyto-Charter Inc., No. 20-CV-3283 (S.D.N.Y. May 13, 2021)
Petitioner Spliethoff Transport B.V. ("Spliethoff") sought an order to compel Respondent Phyto-Charter...
District court refuses to vacate award annulled at the seat of arbitration because it...
Compañía de Inversiones Mercantiles S.A. v. Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua, S.A.B. de C.V., No. 1:15-cv-02120-JLK (D. Colo. Apr. 30, 2021)
In 2005, Compañía de...
Contract compelling arbitration not formed where parties submitted two different versions of the same...
Rowland v. Sandy Morris Financial & Estate Planning Services, LLC., No. 20-1187 (4th Cir. 2021)
Barry and Donna Rowland ("Rowland") first enlisted Sandy Morris...
Michigan appellate court holds that trial court erred in determining that claims were non-arbitrable...
Swiger v. Rosette, No. 19-2470 (6th Cir. 2021)
Plaintiff Nicole Marie Swiger took out a $1,200 loan with an interest rate exceeding 350% from...
District court vacates award where tribunal failed to address repeated objections to arbitrability of...
Copragi S.A. v. Agribusiness United DMCC, No. 20 Civ. 5486 (LGS) (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 15, 2021)
In August of 2013, Petitioner, Copragi S.A. ("Copragi"), a...
Fifth Circuit rules that relocation of place of arbitration did not manifestly disregard the...
Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Inc. v. The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Venezuela, No. 20-60347 (5th Cir. Mar. 10, 2021)
A little...
Second Circuit affirms arbitration award while confirming continuing applicability of manifest disregard of law
Seneca Nation of Indians v. State of New York, No. 19-4022 (2d Cir. Feb. 22, 2021)
On August 18, 2002, the Seneca Nation of Indians...
District court rules an agreement purporting to require arbitration of any dispute with a...
Mey v. DIRECTV, LLC, No. 5:17-CV-179-JPB-JPM (N.D. W. Va. Feb. 12, 2021)
In 2012, Plaintiff Diana Mey, an ordinary wireless consumer, entered into a...
