Mealey's (August 2, 2022, 1:36 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 1 reversed a district court’s dismissal of a law firm’s petition to compel a California-based law firm and two of its partners to comply with a summons to appear at a hearing for an international arbitration seated in Washington D.C., with the panel ruling that venue was proper in the Northern District of California in light of the “permissive” venue provision in Section 204 of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA)....