The primary interest of amici is the orderly and consistent review of arbitral awards by courts in the United States when a party seeks vacatur under Section 10 of the FAA. Amici believe that the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Dewan v. Walia, - F. App'x - , 2013 WL 5781207 (4th Cir. Oct. 28, 2013), applying the manifest disregard doctrine as an independent basis for vacatur and relying on an expansive view of that doctrine to vacate the arbitral award...
