Legal Opinion
New Regency Productions, Inc. v. Nippon Herald Films, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 4, 2007No. 05-55224PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
This case arises from the arbitration of a contract dispute between a film production company and a film distribution company. The district court vacated the arbitration award based on the neutral arbitrator’s failure to disclose that during the arbitration, he began work as a senior executive with a company that was negotiating with a production executive of one of the parties to the arbitration to finance and co-produce an important motion picture.
We hold that vacatur by the district court for “evident partiality” of the arbitrator was proper under the…
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