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Arbitrator Disclosure: A Plea for Help to the US Supreme Court
There are many good reasons for the Supreme Court of the United States to grant the petitions for writ of certiorari now before the Court in two cases involving the question of whether international arbitrators’ undisclosed professional relationships justify vacatur on the basis of evident partiality. The main theme of each of those cert. petitions – that there is a “split” among the federal judicial circuits concerning the relevant test derived from the Court’s 1968 decision in the Commonwealth Coatings case – is sensibly crafted to attract the enthusiasm of the Court. But for those of us who, perhaps more…
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