US 822
Yearbook
Yearbook Commercial Arbitration, A.J. van den Berg (ed.), Vol. XL (2015)
Jurisdiction
United States
Excerpt
Excerpt decision US 822
Summary
US 822. United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, 24 June 2014 and United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 5 August 2015
Related topics
205
Signatures
The court discusses the first alternative requirement of Art. II(2) that the arbitral award is “signed by the parties”.
213
Amendment or renewal
The court discusses the status of an arbitration agreement in a contract that was amended or renewed.
214-216
Field of application
220
"Null and void", etc.
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.