High Court Urged To Review Circuit Split Over Choice Of Law In Arbitration Cases

(November 23, 2022, 12:22 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An Australian entity urges the U.S. Supreme Court in a petition for a writ of certiorari to address a “long-simmering split among the circuits” regarding whether the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) allows federal law to apply by default to an arbitration agreement in a contract governed by state law, as the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held when applying federal rather than Georgia law to uphold an $8 million arbitral award against it....