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D.C. Circuit Vacates Investment Arbitration Award Against Argentina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2012

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References

1 665 F.3d 1363 (D.C. Cir, Jan. 17, 2012).

2 Id. at 1365.

3 Id. at 1368.

4 Id., at 1367-68.

5 Section 10(a)(4) of the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. §10(a), provides that an arbitration award may be vacated “where the arbitrators exceeded their powers, or so imperfectly executed them that a mutual, final, and def inite award upon the subject matter submitted was not made.”

6 Republic of Argentina v. BG Group PLC, 715 F.Supp.2d 108 (D.D.C. 2010); Republic of Argentina v. BG Group PLC, 764 F.Supp.2d 21 (D.D.C. 2011).

7 BG Group, 665 F.3d at 1365-66 (footnote omitted).

8 Id., at 1369.

9 Id., 1370.

10 See Republic of Ecuador v. Chevron Corp., 638 F.3d 384 (2d Cir. 2011).

11 BG Group, 665 F.3d at 1371.

12 Id., at 1371-72 (citation omitted).

13 Id. at 1373 (citation omitted).