MACTEC, Inc. v. Gorelick

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the parties’ intent to waive appellate review of the district court’s judgment on the arbitration award must be “clear and unequivocal”
• holding that parties may limit right to appeal from federal district court’s judgment confirming or vacating award, but expressing doubt that provision restricting any judicial review would be enforceable
• holding that parties agreed to waive right to appeal judgment rendered on any arbitration award by agreeing that “[j]udgment upon the award rendered by the arbitrator shall be final and nonappealable”
• holding that “contractual provisions limiting the right to appeal from a district court’s judgment confirming or vacating an arbitration award are permissible, so long as the intent to do so is clear and unequivocal”
• explaining that a district court’s denial of a motion to vacate an arbitration award was a resolution on the merits
• affirming district court’s dismissal with prejudice of declaratory judgment action as res judicata

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