Lowell E. Harter and Doretta Harter v. Iowa Grain Co.

How courts have described this case

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• affirming the district court's submission of a breach of fiduciary duty claim to arbitration
• declining to reverse district court’s discretionary judgment as to whether claimed fees were excessive
• courts decide whether contract with arbitration clause is invalid root and branch as a violation of federal law
• party must show that the “arbitrator’s bias is ‘direct, definite and capable of demonstration rather than remote, uncertain, or speculative.’”
• “In Illinois, ‘[p]rovisions for attorney’s fees are to be construed strictly, and such fees cannot be recovered for any services, unless so provided by the [contract].’”
• Prior business association between arbitrator and party is insufficient evidence of bias

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).