New Regency Productions, Inc. v. Nippon Herald Films, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a “high-profile” project was not unimportant, even though “the record [did] not allow us to place a dollar value” on it
• acknowledging that the negotiations were ongoing throughout the arbitration
• discussing the arbitrator’s failure to disclose his new employment with a company that was negotiating a project with an executive of one of the corporate parties to the arbitration
• applying Applied Industrial and concluding that a party may be misled into believing that nontrivial conflicts of interest do not exist when a party reasonably could have expected the conflict to be disclosed based on the arbitrator’s prior disclosures in the arbitration
• “[C]ourts have rejected claims of evident partiality based on long past, attenuated, or insubstantial connections between a party and an arbitrator.” (internal citation omitted)
• arbitrators have a duty to “make a reasonable effort to inform themselves of any interests or relationships” subject to disclosure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).