US 797

24 - 06 - 2013

US 797

Yearbook Yearbook Commercial Arbitration, A.J. van den Berg (ed.), Vol. XXXIX (2014)
Jurisdiction United States
Summary

US 797. United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, 18 October 2012 and United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 24 June 2013

Related topics
214-216 Field of application
220

The court discusses how to interpret the Convention’s requirement that the agreement is not null and void etc., as well as specific cases of invalidity: e.g., lack of consent (misrepresentation, duress, or fraud), vague wording of the arbitral clause; other terms of the contract contradict the intention to arbitrate, etc.

"Null and void", etc.
US 797