FAA SUPPLIES ABSENT TERMS IN ARBITRATION CLAUSE
A Virginia district court dismissed a Complaint alleging breach of contract after the defendant sought to enforce the arbitration clause in the contract governing the parties’ relationship. The plaintiff argued that the arbitration clause was too vague and indefinite to be enforced, in that it failed to prescribe a location, a number of arbitrators, procedural rules, or any enforcement mechanism for an arbitration award. However, because the parties agreed that the FAA was the appropriate federal law regarding arbitration, the court concluded that the absent terms were supplied by the FAA. Wolverine Fire Protection v. Atlantic Marine Construction Co., Case No. 2:08cv75 (USDC E.D. Va. April 24, 2008).
This post written by Lynn Hawkins.
