Wages v. Smith Barney Harris Upham & Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• describing alleged bias where the arbitrator had previously worked as an attorney for the parties who had litigated similar claims against the defendant
• “The various federal and state courts that have addressed ‘evident partiality’ have struggled with the concept.”
• various federal and state courts have struggled with the concept, and relevant statutes do not provide a definition
• where ample evidence of partiality exists, panel’s striking of defendant’s defense further evidence of such partiality
• party could challenge arbitrator’s bias after entry of award when prior to arbitration arbitrator did not disclose his litigation against party’s predecessor in interest on a similar issue
• “After examining the totality of the circumstances . . . we find that a reasonable person could indeed conclude that [arbitrator] was partial to [plaintiff] . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).