Assembly Bill A5610

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Authorizes the vacating of an arbitration award on the basis of arbitrator disregard of the law

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A5610 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2396
Current Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Law Section:
Civil Practice Law and Rules
Laws Affected:
Amd §7511, CPLR
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A9993
2017-2018: A1370, S6060
2021-2022: A2503, S565
2023-2024: A3775, S3263

2019-A5610 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the vacating of an arbitration award on the basis of arbitrator disregard of the law.

2019-A5610 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5610
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEINSTEIN, DINOWITZ, SEAWRIGHT, COLTON, ABINANTI,
   WEPRIN,  STECK,  M. G. MILLER, ENGLEBRIGHT, GOTTFRIED, D'URSO, JAFFEE,
   ZEBROWSKI, TAYLOR -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CAHILL,  SIMON  --
   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:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (iv)  of  paragraph 1 of subdivision (b) of
 section 7511 of the civil practice law and rules is amended  and  a  new
 subparagraph (v) is added to read as follows:
   (iv) failure to follow the procedure of this article, unless the party
 applying  to vacate the award continued with the arbitration with notice
 of the defect and without objection[.]; OR
   (V) THE ARBITRATOR EVIDENCED  A  MANIFEST  DISREGARD  OF  THE  LAW  IN
 RENDERING THE AWARD.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00874-01-9

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