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'Irrationally and Intentionally': Intermediate Court to Consider Whether Arbitration Award Should Be Vacated Because Arbitrator Was on Pain Medication

“Appellants would like the Court to believe this is simply an arbitration in which a party did not get all the attorney fees he wanted,” the appellees wrote in their reply brief. “It is actually an extraordinary case in which an arbitrator not only slashed attorney fees dramatically but did a 180-degree reversal of his […]

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Venue Fight: Federal Judge Forced to Reopen Credit Card Case

The grant of mandamus threatens to impossibly hamstring district courts by effectively declaring our district judges can’t manage their dockets to sequence threshold questions before difficult merits questions and cannot transfer cases if there are motions pending, Circuit Judge Stephen Higginson said.        

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