Legal Opinion
In Re the Arbitration Between Siegel & Lewis
New York Court of Appeals
Decided November 23, 1976PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFuchsberg, J.
This proceeding was brought by petitioner Murray Siegel to vacate Samuel Kooper’s and Eugene Birnbuam’s designation as arbitrators in advance of the commencement of an arbitration under a stock purchase agreement. The question is whether the two arbitrators’ prior relationships as attorney and accountant, respectively, for respondent Henry *688Lewis as well as their personal knowledge of facts bearing both on the making of the agreement and on the subsequent dispute between the parties were sufficient to disqualify them at that early juncture. Special Term held that it was and entered judgment…
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- In re the Arbitration between Cross & Brown Co. & NelsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1957
- In Re the Arbitration Between Amtorg Trading Corp. & Camden Fibre Mills, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1952
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