Laverne Jones v. Bernaldo Dancel

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge KEENAN wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge TRAXLER and Judge GREGORY joined.

BARBARA MILANO KEENAN, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, we consider whether the district court erred in denying a motion to vacate certain aspects of an arbitration award. The subject of the parties’ dispute involved various “credit repair” services provided to plaintiff consumers, for which some of the disclosure requirements of the Credit Repair Organizations Act (CROA, or the Act), 15 U.S.C. § 1679 et seq., were not met. The arbitrator awarded the plaintiffs only punitive…