{"id":25,"date":"2012-09-28T21:37:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T01:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appropriatedisputesolutions.com\/site\/?p=25"},"modified":"2013-01-09T21:46:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T02:46:33","slug":"first-circuit-posits-that-ordering-a-violation-of-regs-may-be-grounds-for-vacatur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appropriatedisputesolutions.com\/site\/first-circuit-posits-that-ordering-a-violation-of-regs-may-be-grounds-for-vacatur\/","title":{"rendered":"First Circuit Posits that Ordering a Violation of Regs may be grounds for vacatur"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Bangor Gas Company, LLC v. H.Q. Energy Services (U.S.) Inc<\/em>., __ F.3d __, 2012 WL 4373685 (1st Cir. Sept. 26, 2012), an owner of a pipeline argued that an arbitration award required the parties to violate FERC regulations. Without clarifying its position on manifest disregard, the First Circuit upheld the award but stated that ordering a violation of law likely would lead to vacatur:<\/p>\n

\u201cwe will assume (arguendo but with some confidence) that an arbitration would be vulnerable to the extent that it directed one or both of the parties clearly to violate\u201d a rule or regulation of an administrative agency.<\/p>\n

In this case, the Court found no regulation specifically prohibiting the conduct ordered by the award despite an agency staff opinion to that effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Bangor Gas Company, LLC v. H.Q. Energy Services (U.S.) Inc., __ F.3d __, 2012 WL 4373685 (1st Cir. Sept. 26, 2012), an owner of a pipeline argued that an arbitration award required the parties to violate FERC regulations. Without clarifying its position on manifest disregard, the First Circuit upheld the award but stated that … Continue reading “First Circuit Posits that Ordering a Violation of Regs may be grounds for vacatur”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,7],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arbitration","tag-arbitration-2","tag-vacatur"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6qGtQ-p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":147,"url":"https:\/\/appropriatedisputesolutions.com\/site\/go-bare-to-protect-your-confidences\/","url_meta":{"origin":25,"position":0},"title":"Go Bare to Protect Your Confidences","author":"lakaster","date":"April 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Choosing a bare award can preserve confidential information in arbitration","rel":"","context":"In "Arbitration"","block_context":{"text":"Arbitration","link":"https:\/\/appropriatedisputesolutions.com\/site\/category\/arbitration\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":36,"url":"https:\/\/appropriatedisputesolutions.com\/site\/dodd-frank-restoring-american-financial-stability-act-2010-impacts-arbitration\/","url_meta":{"origin":25,"position":1},"title":"Dodd-Frank \u2013 Restoring American Financial Stability Act 2010 Impacts Arbitration","author":"lakaster","date":"August 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 (the \u201cDodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act\u201d) was recently signed into law. 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