A federal judge has sanctioned Harris Beach attorneys for challenging an arbitration award in court, ruling the petition caused the parties “to incur unnecessary expense and delay” and the firm’s representation of undisputed facts and selective quoting of the record were “disingenuous at best.”
Harris Beach attorneys Paul Yesawich III, David Edwards and Teresa Bair represented DigiTelCom, which was a minority shareholder in two Russian telecommunications companies. DigiTelCom asked the Southern District to vacate an arbitration award that had dismissed all of its claims in a dispute against a large telecommunications operator in Sweden, Tele2 Sverige AB.
