Liddle & Robinson v. Kidder Peabody & Co

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that district court retained jurisdiction to enter sanctions during stay for arbitration proceedings
• providing that the FAA “contemplates that courts should not interfere with arbitrations by making interlocutory rulings”
• hearing not required on request for Rule 11 sanctions when trial court has already observed elements of litigation most relevant to criteria for imposing sanctions
• appropriate standard for reviewing decision whether to hold evidentiary hearing on attorney’s fees is abuse of discretion
• “The Arbitration Act contemplates that courts should not interfere with arbi-trations by making interlocutory rulings .... ”
• It is “an empty formalism to find an abuse of discretion simply because the district court failed to invoke the magic words ‘bad faith.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).