Kelly Wayne Thrailkille v. April Thrailkille

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the Supreme Court introduced “manifest disregard of the law” as grounds for vacatur in Wilko v. Swan, 346 U.S. 427 (1953)
• stating that manifest disregard “clearly means more than error or misunderstanding with respect to the law”
• explaining that court is “not at liberty to set aside an arbitration panel’s award because of an arguable difference regarding the meaning or applicability of laws urged upon it”
• explaining that a court is “not at liberty to set aside an arbitration panel’s award because of an arguable difference regarding the meaning or applicability of laws urged upon it”
• “The error must have been obvious and capable of being readily and instantly perceived by the average person qualified to serve as an arbitrator.”
• “[T]he term ‘disregard’ implies that the arbitrator appreciates the existence of a clearly governing legal principle but decides to ignore or pay no attention to it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).