COLLINS v. D.R. HORTON, INC.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today released an opinion in COLLINS v. D.R. HORTON, INC., No. 05-15737, a diversity appeal. The panel consisted of Dorothy W. Nelson, Consuelo M. Callahan, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.
BEA, Circuit Judge:
Julie E. Collins and Robert B. Ryan (”Appellants”) appeal the district court’s denial of their motion to vacate an arbitration award. Appellants contend their motion should have been granted because the arbitrators manifestly disregarded the law when deciding not to apply offensive non-mutual collateral estoppel because judicial review of an arbitration award under the Federal Arbitration Act (”FAA”) is more limited than judicial review of a district court judgment. We hold the arbitrators did not manifestly disregard the law because no “well defined, explicit, and clearly applicable” law existed to . . .