The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently held that the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Hall Street Associates v. Mattel "restricts the grounds for vacatur" of an arbitration award and, thus, "manifest disregard for the law is no longer an indepdendent ground for vacating arbitration awards under the FAA." Consequently
April 2009
Federal Certified Orders for Interlocutory Appeal
By Mike Northrup on
Posted in Opinions & Judgments
This week the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in connection with a Petition for Leave to Appeal solely to remind district judges (and presumably practitioners) to demonstrate that the standards governing interlocutory appeals under 28 U.S.C. Section 1292(b) have been met.
Section 1292(b) requires that a district court should state when…