Forsythe International, S.A. v. Gibbs Oil Company of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that to vacate for fraud, there must be “a nexus between the alleged fraud and the basis for the panel’s decision”
• holding that when a district court orders new arbitration rather than clarification, appellate review is proper
• noting that a District Court can vacate an arbitration award found to be arbitrary, capricious, or fundamentally unfair
• holding that alleged discovery abuse by one party, even if true, did not lead to vacatur on basis of fraud because arbitration panel heard argument on allegations of fraud, received evidence of same, declared it would consider all evidence before it, and rendered a decision
• positing that an arbitration award should be vacated if it is fundamentally unfair
• upholding an arbitrator’s decision despite clear evidence of arbitrator inattention and refusal by the panel to hear certain evidence

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