Michael E. Wallace, David Jacaruso and Joseph Scotti v. Daljit S. Buttar and Paramjit Buttar, Robert Winston, Additional

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• explaining that “[a] federal court cannot vacate an arbitral award merely because it is convinced that the arbitration panel made the wrong call on the law”
• noting that an arbitral award “should be enforced, despite a court’s disagreement with it on the merits, if there is a barely colorable justification for the outcome reached” (citation omitted)
• referring to the “heavy burden” on the party seeking vacatur under the FAA
• “A motion to vacate filed in a federal court is not an occasion for de novo review of an arbitral award.”
• award will be enforced “despite a court’s disagreement with it on the merits, if there is a barely colorable justification for the outcome reached”
• “Our cases demonstrate that we have used the manifest disregard of law doctrine to vacate arbitral awards only in the most egregious instances of misapplication of legal principles.”

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