Legal Opinion
Ovitz v. Schulman
California Court of Appeal
Decided October 26, 2005No. B179978PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
WILLHITE, J.
The issues in this appeal involve the interplay of three arcane and technical areas of law: the California disclosure obligations in contractual arbitration; the California statute governing the vacating of arbitration awards; and the limited preemptive effect of the Federal Arbitration Act on state arbitration law.
Responding to legislative mandate, the California Judicial Council promulgated the California Ethics Standards for Neutral Arbitrators in Contractual Arbitration. (23 pt. 4 West’s Ann. Cal. Rules of Court (appen., div. VI) (2005 ed.), pp. 566-588; California…
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