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SCOTUS speaks: closing the gaps between international and domestic arbitrations, non-signatories may seek to enforce arbitration agreements

Ending a nagging circuit split and narrowing differences between domestic and international arbitration, the Supreme Court has now made it easier for non-signatories to enforce international arbitration agreements in GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA LLC, No. 18-1048, 2020 WL 2814297 (U.S. June 1, 2020). In doing so, the Court healed a two-way split in four Circuit Courts of Appeal and made international arbitration agreements under the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the New York Convention), 21 U.S.T. 2517, T.I.A.S. No. 6997, more like domestic agreements under the Federal Arbitration Act (the FAA), 9 U.S.C.A. §§ 1-16 (West 2020). If a non-signatory to an international arbitration agreement can show that it has a sufficiently strong connection to a signatory, it will now have standing to enforce that agreement in a United States court much as it would with respect to a domestic arbitration agreement.

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