The Texas Supreme Court will hear a pair of cases that present significant questions for the beginning and the end of the arbitration process. Those include whether an “unconscionable attorney fees” provision voids an arbitration agreement and what parties must do to vacate an arbitration award for alleged evident partiality.

Those issues arise in Venture Cotton Cooperative and Noble Americas Corp. v. Shelby Alan Freeman and Ponderosa Pine Energy LLC v. Tenaska Energy Inc., on which the high court granted review Nov. 22.