Grupo Unidos por el Canal SA et al v Autoridad del Canal de Panama - United States Supreme Court Docket No 23-660 - Brief of Autoridad Del Canal De Panama - 20 February 2024
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2024
Summary
QUESTION PRESENTED
Under the Federal Arbitration Act, a court may vacate an arbitral award "where there was evident partiality * * * in the arbitrators." 9 U.S.C. § 10(a). In the district court, Petitioners moved to vacate the awards issued after a years-long arbitration between Petitioners and Respondent, arguing that the arbitrators' nondisclosure of certain facts about their service as arbitrators in various unrelated matters evinced "evident partiality." The district court denied vacatur, and the Eleventh Circuit affirmed.
The question presented is whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly concluded that Petitioners failed to demonstrate "evident partiality" on the facts of this case.