Legal Opinion
Stolt-Nielsen SA v. AnimalFeeds International Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 4, 2008No. Docket 06-3474-cvPublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SACK, Circuit Judge:
The parties to this litigation are also parties to international maritime contracts that contain arbitration clauses. The contracts are silent as to whether arbitration is permissible on behalf of a class of contracting parties. The question presented on this appeal is whether the arbitration panel, in issuing a clause construction award construing that silence to permit class arbitration, acted in manifest disregard of the law. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Jed S. Rakoff, Judge) answered that question in the affirmative and…
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