Kiernan v. Piper Jaffray Companies, Inc.

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 to an arbitration waived their evident partiality claim “by weighing their options at the time of [the arbitrator’s] amended disclosures and deciding to go forward with her on the panel”
• rejecting the “niceties” of federal judicial requirements of allocation of burden of proof as a proper measure of arbitration proceedings
• “Regardless of the wisdom of the panel’s [legal] conclusion, it in no way demonstrates a manifest disregard for the law warranting vacation of the arbitration award in this case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).