Alabama v. Congo

How courts have described this case

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• holding that arbitrators exceeded their powers by granting punitive damages where agreement provided that New York law governed, so that arbitration award of punitive damages was vacated
• “The FAA applies when there is federal subject matter jurisdiction, i.e., diversity jurisdiction, and when the contract calling for arbitration ‘evidences a transaction involving interstate commerce.’” (quoting 9 U.S.C. § 2)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).