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Hall Street Blues: The Uncertain Future Of Manifest Disregard, Jill I. Gross
Hall Street Blues: The Uncertain Future Of Manifest Disregard, Jill I. Gross
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
In 2008, in Hall Street Assocs. v. Mattel, Inc., the Supreme Court resolved a then-existing split in the federal circuits and held that parties cannot contractually expand the grounds for judicial review of an arbitration award when invoking the Federal Arbitration Act's vacatur provisions, elevating the finality of arbitration over the parties’ freedom of contract. The Hall Street decision necessarily impacted subsequent jurisprudence regarding parties’ motions to vacate arbitration awards. While the opinion clearly and explicitly barred further contractual expansion of grounds for review, it also avoided and thus left unresolved the issue of whether it would endorse or reject …