Arma, S.R.O. v. Bae Systems Overseas, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding petitioner’s request to vacate based on manifest disregard of summary-judgment standard “fail[s] on the ground that this Court cannot correct errors in an arbitrator’s reasoning, even when [the arbitrator] substantially misapplies an established legal standard”
• discussing Supreme Court’s equivocation in Hall Street Associates, 552 U.S. at 585, 128 S.Ct. 1396, on whether manifest disregard of law can be basis for vacatur of arbitral award
• denying a motion to vacate in part because petitioner lacked any evidence that improper correspondence sent by respondent after the record closed actually influenced the arbitrator
• “[D]istrict courts are not empowered to second-guess such decisions—procedural or substantive— even if there is evidence that the arbitrator erred.”
• “[I]t is not enough for the party seeking vacatur to complain that the arbitrator made procedural missteps.”
• “a court must defer to the arbitrator's judgment” on choice of law, even if the arbitrator gives no explanation for its decision”

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