Goldman, Sachs & Co. v. Athena Venture Partners, L.P.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that parties must “thoroughly and systematically dig[] for dirt” on the arbitrator “prior to being solely motivated by the chance of vacating the award”
• holding a party is precluded from challenging an arbitration award on grounds of arbitrator misconduct if the party had constructive knowledge of the misconduct during the hearings and did not object
• adopting the Ninth Circuit's reasoning in Fidelity and noting conformity with the First, Second, and Eighth Circuits
• waiver applies in the arbitration context when a party has constructive knowledge of an arbitrator’s potential misconduct but fails to timely object
• a party waives its right to seek vacatur on grounds of misconduct when it had constructive knowledge of the alleged misconduct during the arbitration proceedings but did not challenge it then
• “The initial disclosure, deficient as it was, provided enough alarming information to compel the parties to do further research. . . . Or at least such a disclosure should have provoked alarm.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).