District Court Erred by Intervening Mid-Arbitration: Ninth Circuit | Practical Law
In In re Sussex, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit took the rare step of granting a writ of mandamus and vacated the district court's decision to remove an arbitrator for conflict of interest. The Ninth Circuit reasoned that court intervention mid-arbitration should occur only in extreme cases, and that the case below was "emphatically" not an extreme case.