A05610 Summary:

BILL NOA05610
 
SAME ASSAME AS S02396
 
SPONSORWeinstein (MS)
 
COSPNSRDinowitz, Seawright, Colton, Abinanti, Weprin, Steck, Miller MG, Englebright, Gottfried, D'Urso, Jaffee, Zebrowski, Taylor, Wright
 
MLTSPNSRCahill, Simon
 
Amd §7511, CPLR
 
Authorizes the vacating of an arbitration award on the basis of arbitrator disregard of the law.
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A05610 Actions:

BILL NOA05610
 
02/14/2019referred to judiciary
02/27/2019reported
02/28/2019advanced to third reading cal.89
03/07/2019passed assembly
03/07/2019delivered to senate
03/07/2019REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
01/08/2020DIED IN SENATE
01/08/2020RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
01/08/2020ordered to third reading cal.212
01/23/2020passed assembly
01/23/2020delivered to senate
01/23/2020REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
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A05610 Committee Votes:

JUDICIARY Chair:Dinowitz DATE:02/27/2019AYE/NAY:21/0 Action: Favorable
DinowitzAyePalumboAye
TitusAyeMontesanoAye
LavineAyeGoodellAye
ZebrowskiAyeNorrisAye
WeprinAyeWalshAye
BraunsteinAyeByrnesAye
SimotasAye
QuartAye
BuchwaldAye
SteckAye
SeawrightAye
JoynerAye
AbinantiAye
WrightAye
WallaceAye

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A05610 Floor Votes:

DATE:03/07/2019Assembly Vote  YEA/NAY: 141/0
Yes
Abbate
Yes
Crespo
ER
Gantt
Yes
LiPetri
Yes
Perry
Yes
Simon
Yes
Abinanti
Yes
Crouch
Yes
Garbarino
Yes
Lupardo
Yes
Pheffer Amato
Yes
Simotas
ER
Arroyo
Yes
Cruz
Yes
Giglio
Yes
Magnarelli
Yes
Pichardo
Yes
Smith
Yes
Ashby
Yes
Cusick
Yes
Glick
Yes
Malliotakis
Yes
Pretlow
Yes
Smullen
Yes
Aubry
Yes
Cymbrowitz
Yes
Goodell
Yes
Manktelow
Yes
Quart
Yes
Solages
Yes
Barclay
Yes
Davila
Yes
Gottfried
Yes
McDonald
Yes
Ra
Yes
Stec
Yes
Barnwell
Yes
De La Rosa
Yes
Griffin
Yes
McDonough
Yes
Raia
Yes
Steck
Yes
Barrett
Yes
DenDekker
Yes
Gunther
Yes
McMahon
Yes
Ramos
Yes
Stern
Yes
Barron
Yes
DeStefano
Yes
Hawley
Yes
Mikulin
Yes
Raynor
Yes
Stirpe
Yes
Benedetto
Yes
Dickens
Yes
Hevesi
Yes
Miller B
Yes
Reilly
Yes
Tague
ER
Bichotte
Yes
Dilan
Yes
Hunter
Yes
Miller MG
Yes
Reyes
Yes
Taylor
Yes
Blake
Yes
Dinowitz
Yes
Hyndman
ER
Miller ML
Yes
Richardson
Yes
Thiele
Yes
Blankenbush
Yes
DiPietro
Yes
Jacobson
Yes
Montesano
Yes
Rivera
Yes
Titus
Yes
Brabenec
Yes
D'Urso
Yes
Jaffee
Yes
Morinello
ER
Rodriguez
Yes
Vanel
Yes
Braunstein
Yes
Eichenstein
Yes
Jean-Pierre
Yes
Mosley
Yes
Romeo
Yes
Walczyk
Yes
Bronson
Yes
Englebright
Yes
Johns
Yes
Niou
Yes
Rosenthal D
Yes
Walker
Yes
Buchwald
Yes
Epstein
Yes
Jones
ER
Nolan
Yes
Rosenthal L
Yes
Wallace
Yes
Burke
Yes
Fahy
Yes
Joyner
Yes
Norris
Yes
Rozic
Yes
Walsh
Yes
Buttenschon
Yes
Fall
Yes
Kim
Yes
O'Donnell
Yes
Ryan
Yes
Weinstein
Yes
Byrne
Yes
Fernandez
ER
Kolb
Yes
Ortiz
Yes
Salka
Yes
Weprin
Yes
Byrnes
Yes
Finch
Yes
Lalor
Yes
Otis
Yes
Santabarbara
Yes
Williams
Yes
Cahill
Yes
Fitzpatrick
Yes
Lavine
Yes
Palmesano
Yes
Sayegh
Yes
Woerner
Yes
Carroll
Yes
Friend
Yes
Lawrence
Yes
Palumbo
ER
Schimminger
Yes
Wright
Yes
Colton
Yes
Frontus
Yes
Lentol
Yes
Paulin
Yes
Schmitt
Yes
Zebrowski
Yes
Cook
Yes
Galef
Yes
Lifton
Yes
Peoples-Stokes
Yes
Seawright
ER
Mr. Speaker

‡ Indicates voting via videoconference
DATE:01/23/2020Assembly Vote  YEA/NAY: 136/0
Yes
Abbate
Yes
Crespo
Yes
Frontus
Yes
Lentol
Yes
Paulin
Yes
Simon
Yes
Abinanti
Yes
Crouch
Yes
Galef
Yes
Lifton
Yes
Peoples-Stokes
Yes
Simotas
Yes
Arroyo
Yes
Cruz
ER
Gantt
Yes
LiPetri
Yes
Perry
Yes
Smith
Yes
Ashby
Yes
Cusick
Yes
Garbarino
Yes
Lupardo
Yes
Pheffer Amato
Yes
Smullen
Yes
Aubry
Yes
Cymbrowitz
Yes
Giglio
Yes
Magnarelli
Yes
Pichardo
Yes
Solages
Yes
Barclay
Yes
Darling
Yes
Glick
Yes
Malliotakis
Yes
Pretlow
Yes
Stec
Yes
Barnwell
Yes
Raynor
Yes
Goodell
Yes
Manktelow
Yes
Quart
Yes
Steck
Yes
Barrett
Yes
Davila
Yes
Gottfried
Yes
McDonald
Yes
Ra
Yes
Stern
Yes
Barron
Yes
De La Rosa
Yes
Griffin
ER
McDonough
Yes
Ramos
ER
Stirpe
Yes
Benedetto
Yes
DenDekker
Yes
Gunther
Yes
McMahon
Yes
Reilly
Yes
Tague
ER
Bichotte
Yes
DeStefano
Yes
Hawley
Yes
Mikulin
Yes
Reyes
Yes
Taylor
Yes
Blake
Yes
Dickens
Yes
Hevesi
Yes
Miller B
Yes
Richardson
Yes
Thiele
Yes
Blankenbush
Yes
Dilan
Yes
Hunter
Yes
Miller MG
Yes
Rivera
Yes
Vanel
Yes
Brabenec
Yes
Dinowitz
Yes
Hyndman
ER
Miller ML
Yes
Rodriguez
Yes
Walczyk
Yes
Braunstein
Yes
DiPietro
Yes
Jacobson
Yes
Montesano
ER
Romeo
ER
Walker
Yes
Bronson
Yes
D'Urso
Yes
Jaffee
Yes
Morinello
Yes
Rosenthal D
Yes
Wallace
Yes
Buchwald
Yes
Eichenstein
Yes
Jean-Pierre
Yes
Mosley
Yes
Rosenthal L
Yes
Walsh
Yes
Burke
Yes
Englebright
Yes
Johns
Yes
Niou
Yes
Rozic
Yes
Weinstein
Yes
Buttenschon
Yes
Epstein
Yes
Jones
Yes
Nolan
Yes
Ryan
Yes
Weprin
Yes
Byrne
Yes
Fahy
Yes
Joyner
Yes
Norris
Yes
Salka
Yes
Williams
Yes
Byrnes
Yes
Fall
ER
Kim
Yes
O'Donnell
Yes
Santabarbara
Yes
Woerner
Yes
Cahill
Yes
Fernandez
ER
Kolb
Yes
Ortiz
Yes
Sayegh
Yes
Wright
Yes
Carroll
Yes
Finch
ER
Lalor
Yes
Otis
ER
Schimminger
Yes
Zebrowski
Yes
Colton
Yes
Fitzpatrick
Yes
Lavine
Yes
Palmesano
Yes
Schmitt
Yes
Mr. Speaker
Yes
Cook
Yes
Friend
Yes
Lawrence
ER
Palumbo
Yes
Seawright

‡ Indicates voting via videoconference
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A05610 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A5610
 
SPONSOR: Weinstein (MS)
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to vacating arbitration awards on the basis of arbitrator disregard of the law   PURPOSE OF BILL: To permit an arbitration award to be vacated as a result of an arbitrator's manifest disregard of the law.   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OF BILL: This bill would add a new subdivision to CPLR 7511, which would permit an arbitration award to be vacated due to arbitral manifest disregard of law.   EFFECTS OF PRESENT LAW WHICH THIS BILL WOULD ALTER: This bill would provide needed clarification to CPLR 7511 and the limit- ed circumstances under which an arbitration award may be vacated.   JUSTIFICATION: Under existing law, an arbitration award can be vacated if "completely irrational", a high standard for the losing arbitral litigant to over- come. As noted by Professor Siegel, even an arbitrator's "manifest disregard of the law" is not a basis for vacating an award in New York State. New York Practice, Firth Edition, Sec. 602. While arbitration can be a useful tool for persons to settle disputes in a more timely and cost-effective way, such resolutions should not be totally divorced from applicable standards of law. Thus, a measured and prudent way in which arbitrators should be required to reasonably follow applicable legal standards in resolving disputes would be permit awards to be vacated if arbitrators evidence a "manifest disregard of the law". This standard has been used in federal practice for many years as a basis to vacate arbitration awards. In fact, the Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit has well-honed this standard as follows: "...first, whether the governing law alleged to have been ignored by the arbitrators was well defined, explicit, and clearly applicable, and, second, whether the arbitrator knew about the existence of a clearly governing legal principle but decided to ignore it or pay no attention to it".   internal citations omitted Schwartz v. Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., 665 F. 3d 444 (2011). In setting such a clear standard of law for the vacating of arbitration awards, this bill would provide greater clarity to the Courts in deter- mining whether an award would be subject to vacatur due to failure to follow applicable law. Such a standard would also compel arbitrators to make a good faith and reasonable attempt to follow provisions of substantive law, which they presently are not required to do.   LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 2017-18: A.1370/S.6050 - PA/S.Codes 2016: A.9993 - PA   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS: None.   EFFECTIVE DATE: This bill shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall become law.
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A05610 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5610
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 14, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. WEINSTEIN, DINOWITZ, SEAWRIGHT, COLTON, ABINANTI,
          WEPRIN,  STECK,  M. G. MILLER, ENGLEBRIGHT, GOTTFRIED, D'URSO, JAFFEE,
          ZEBROWSKI, TAYLOR -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CAHILL,  SIMON  --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
 
        AN  ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to vacat-
          ing arbitration awards on the basis of arbitrator disregard of the law
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (iv)  of  paragraph 1 of subdivision (b) of
     2  section 7511 of the civil practice law and rules is amended  and  a  new
     3  subparagraph (v) is added to read as follows:
     4    (iv) failure to follow the procedure of this article, unless the party
     5  applying  to vacate the award continued with the arbitration with notice
     6  of the defect and without objection[.]; or
     7    (v) the arbitrator evidenced  a  manifest  disregard  of  the  law  in
     8  rendering the award.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00874-01-9
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A05610 LFIN:

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A05610 Chamber Video/Transcript:

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