Judge Holds Defenses To Arbitration Under Convention Do Not Apply, Grants Motion

Mealey's (April 3, 2019, 1:43 PM EDT) -- BROOKLYN, N.Y. — After holding that a written agreement to arbitration existed between a stewardess and a cruise line and no defenses to arbitration applied, a New York federal judge on March 29 granted a motion to compel arbitration of the dispute in Bermuda (Tetyana Moskalenko v. Carnival PLC, et al., No. 17-CV-6947, E.D. N.Y., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 56584)....