High Court Won’t Review Ruling That Consulting Firm Waived Right To Arbitrate

Mealey's (May 31, 2022, 12:42 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on May 31 denied a Texas consulting firm’s petition for review of a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling blocking it from arbitrating a contractual dispute with a Hong Kong entity for payment of a finder’s fee on a multimillion-dollar oil drilling deal, despite the firm’s argument that new precedent in Morgan v. Sundance supported its view that the right to arbitrate cannot be waived without evidence of intent to do so....