Two years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Hall Street Associates v. Mattel Inc., in which the court denied parties the ability through their arbitration agreements to create a judicial right of review in circumstances other than those specifically set forth in the Federal Arbitration Act, or FAA.
At that time, a spate of articles appeared in the Legal considering the extent to which that opinion had similarly limited the ability of courts to review an arbitration decision based upon an allegation of an arbitrator’s manifest disregard of the law.
