Bill Text: NY A05610 | 2019-2020 | 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 17-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-23 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [A05610 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05610-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5610
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    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:
     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.
                                                                   LBD00874-01-9