Manifestly … not.
April 30, 2025“Grafting ‘manifest disregard of the law’ as a basis for a losing party at arbitration to prevail under § 10(a)(4) would risk tension with Hall Street—and would run headlong into Oxford Health—by forcing us to conduct a less deferential review of a panel’s award than the FAA contemplates. Indeed, adopting [Appellant’s] reading essentially would rewrite the question a judge must ask from ‘whether the arbitrators construed the contract at all’ to ‘whether they construed it correctly.'” No. 24-10833 (Apr. 28, 2025).