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Crowning The New King: The Statutory Arbitrator And The Demise Of Judicial Review, Michael H. Leroy
Crowning The New King: The Statutory Arbitrator And The Demise Of Judicial Review, Michael H. Leroy
Michael H LeRoy
Judicial review of arbitration awards is highly deferential, but when does it become rubber stamping? Using original data, I find that federal courts vacated only 4.3 percent of 162 disputed awards. Nearly the same result was observed for a sub-sample of 44 employment discrimination awards under Title VII. By comparison, federal appeals courts in 2006 reversed 12.9 percent of 5,917 rulings made by civil court judges on the merits of legal claims.
Why are the rulings of Article III judges scrutinized more than the awards of citizen-arbitrators? What does this mean when companies can avoid Article III court rulings by …