Bill Text: NY A01370 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the vacating of an arbitration award on the basis of arbitrator disregard of the law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-23 - REFERRED TO CODES [A01370 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A01370-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1370 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEINSTEIN, TITONE, DINOWITZ, SEAWRIGHT, SEPULVE- DA, COLTON, ABINANTI -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to vacat- ing arbitration awards on the basis of arbitrator disregard of the law The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph 1 of subdivision (b) of 2 section 7511 of the civil practice law and rules is amended and a new 3 subparagraph (v) is added to read as follows: 4 (iv) failure to follow the procedure of this article, unless the party 5 applying to vacate the award continued with the arbitration with notice 6 of the defect and without objection[.]; or 7 (v) the arbitrator evidenced a manifest disregard of the law in 8 rendering the award. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 10 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02866-01-7
