Edstrom Industries, Inc. v. Companion Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that manifest disregard of the law is not a ground on which a court may reject an abritrator’s award under the FAA
• holding that manifest disregard of the law is not a ground on which a court may reject an arbitrator’s award under the FAA
• if parties’ agreement tells arbitrator ‘‘to apply Wisconsin law, he cannot apply New York law’’
• ‘‘[P]recisely because arbitration is a creature of contract, the arbitrator cannot disregard the lawful directions the parties have given [him]. If they tell him to apply Wisconsin law, he cannot apply New York law.’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).