Justices May Hesitate To Limit Courts' Arbitration Review

By Ashwini Jayaratnam ( April 2, 2026, 2:24 PM EDT) -- Since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 ruling in Badgerow v. Walters, federal courts have mulled the boundaries of their jurisdiction to enforce arbitral awards.[1] Badgerow held that because enforcement applications are akin to garden variety state law claims for contract breach, federal courts generally lack jurisdiction to confirm or vacate these awards absent diversity of citizenship, even if the underlying action involved federal claims....

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