Legal Opinion · Dissent

Onvoy, Inc. v. SHAL, LLC.

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided September 25, 2003No. C7-02-621, C7-02-702Published

1DissentGilbert, Justice

In a 1968 United States Supreme Court case, Justice Black prophetically noted:

It is true that arbitrators cannot sever all their ties 'with the business world, since they are not expected to get all their income from their work deciding cases, but we should, if anything, be even more scrupulous to safeguard the impartiality of arbitrators than judges, since the former have completely free rein to decide the law as well as the facts and are not subject to appellate review.

Commonwealth Coatings Corp. v. Continental Cas. Co., 393 U.S. 145, 148-49, 89 S.Ct. 337, 21 L.Ed.2d 301 (1968).

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2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Commonwealth Coatings Corp. v. Continental Casualty Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. Park Construction Co. v. Independent School District No. 32Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1941
  3. Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 96,646 Al Ainsworth v. Sam SkurnickCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1992
  4. Washburne v. LufkinSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1860

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