UNITED STATES 219
Yearbook
Yearbook Commercial Arbitration, A.J. van den Berg (ed.), Vol. XXII (1997)
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United States
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Full text decision UNITED STATES 219
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US 219. United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, 7 February 1996
Related topics
214-216
Field of application
218
Referral is mandatory
The court discusses whether referral of the resolution of disputes to arbitration is mandatory under the Convention and whether mandatory referral is an internationally uniform rule which supersedes municipal law.
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Concurrent court proceedings ("indivisibility")
Multi-party disputes: The court discusses whether related court proceedings may absorb (by vis atractiva) arbitration proceedings.