5th Circuit Confirms Award, Finds Arbitrator Did Not ‘Manifestly Disregard’ Law

(January 26, 2020, 9:03 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel in a Jan. 9 unpublished per curiam opinion affirmed a district court’s confirmation of an arbitral award, ruling that even though the arbitrator found, contrary to Texas law, that causation was required to prove unjust enrichment, the lapse did not rise to the level of “manifest disregard” that would justify vacatur of the award (Dynacolor Inc. v Razberi Technologies Inc., No. 19-10720, 5th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 869)....