Judge Orders Remand After Dismissal Of Arbitration Defense, Adopts Report

Mealey's (April 19, 2019, 11:22 AM EDT) -- MOBILE, Ala. — An Alabama federal judge on April 18 adopted a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation that after the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ recent reversal of an order compelling claims against a French company to arbitration in Germany, the case be remanded to state court, finding that the company’s challenges to the appeals court’s findings of fact were frivolous (Outokumpu Stainless USA LLC, et al. v. Converteam SAS, a foreign corporation now known as GE Energy Conversion France SAS, Corp., No. 16-00378, S.D. Ala., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66097)....