Panel Holds Arbitrator’s Order Was Not A Foreign Award, Vacates Confirmation

Mealey's (February 28, 2019, 1:19 PM EST) -- SEATTLE — After holding that an arbitrator’s order approving a settlement agreement reached between a seaman and several fishing and marine companies was not a foreign arbitral award under the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, a panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 27 reversed a district court’s decision enforcing the order and remanded the case for further proceedings on jurisdiction (Michael D. Castro v. Tri Marine Fish Company LLC, et al., No. 17-35703, 9th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 5864)....