Mealey's (January 21, 2020, 4:16 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the New York Convention) is silent about enforcement of arbitration agreements by nonsignatories, and so that is a “floor, not a ceiling, for enforcing arbitration agreements and awards,” Shay Dvoretzky of Jones Day in Washington told the U.S. Supreme Court Jan. 21 in oral arguments on behalf of a French company seeking to enforce an agreement that it did not sign on the basis of the doctrine of equitable estoppel (GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS, Corp. v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC, et al., No. 18-1048, U.S. Sup.)....