Steel Plant Operator To U.S. High Court: Nonsignatory Can’t Pursue Arbitration

Mealey's (November 25, 2019, 10:07 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chapter 2 of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) and the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the New York Convention) prohibit courts from compelling arbitration between parties who have no agreement in writing, a steel plant operator and insurers argue in a respondent brief filed Nov. 22 in the U.S. Supreme Court (GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS, Corp. v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC, et al., No. 18-1048, U.S. Sup.)....