High Court Won’t Hear Choice-Of-Law Dispute In Australian Jet Contract

Mealey's (January 9, 2023, 1:02 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 9 denied an Australian entity’s petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review over 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 for a jet contract dispute....