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Vacation Of Awards For Fraud, Bias, Misconduct And Partiality, Alan H. Rothstein
Vacation Of Awards For Fraud, Bias, Misconduct And Partiality, Alan H. Rothstein
Vanderbilt Law Review
The role of the arbitration process in today's society is to supplant the often laborious and time consuming procedures of the courts with a more informal process wherein the parties to a controversy, by agreement, give one or more individuals effective power to render a decision on a particular matter, or on future controversies as they arise. In order that the grant of the power be effective, and that a resulting award be obeyed, the courts will generally enforce a properly made award without examination of the underlying issues or evidence of the controversy developed during the arbitration. Judicial prescriptions …