Legal Opinion
Thompson v. Lee
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided April 16, 1991No. 89-882PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FARRELL, Associate Judge:
In this appeal we reverse the denial of a motion to confirm an arbitration award. We remand for a determination by the trial court, upon an adequate evidentiary foundation, of whether there was fraud in the inducement of the Settlement Agreement which gave rise to the arbitration and the ensuing arbitration award, and hence whether confirmation of the award could properly be denied.
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On January 18, 1988, former law partners W.E. Thompson, on the one hand, and Sandy V. Lee and Edwin H. Harvey (Lee & Harvey), on the other, executed a “Settlement Agreement” which resolved…
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