Alexander v. Quail Pointe II Condominium

The issue presented is whether a judgment confirming an arbitration award should be set aside because the parties arbitrated pursuant to an agreed order that was not substantially similar to the mandatory form order of referral to nonbinding arbitration that had been adopted by the chief judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit in which the case was pending. Below, the appellant, C.V. Alexander, moved for relief from the judgment, asserting that deficiencies in the agreed order denied him due process and that his counsel’s lack of familiarity with nonbinding arbitration procedures constituted…