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Supreme Court Limits Federal Courts' Say Over Arbitration Awards

On Thursday, the United States Supreme Court held that federal courts do not have the authority to search an arbitration dispute for a federal question that would establish jurisdiction to confirm or deny an arbitral award.[1] The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that the text of the Federal Arbitration Act does not entitle federal courts to “look through” the underlying dispute in order to establish federal question jurisdiction to hear requests to confirm or deny awards.[2]

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