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United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 24 June 2013

(Geovany Quiroz v. MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, SA, et al.)

24 - 06 - 2013

UNITED STATES 797 B

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

See also United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, 18 October 2012

(Geovany Quiroz v. MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, SA, et al.)

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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.
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