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“A judge voided arbitration awards to an acupuncture provider, saying vacatur was warranted for the arbitrator’s failure to disclose his connection to a law firm that represented the provider in other cases. Manhattan Civil Court Judge Michael Katz said there was ‘considerable evidence’ that arbitrator Michael Rosenberger, of the American Arbitration Association, had ‘more than a remote or occasional association’ with the provider’s firm in a number of other no-fault proceedings.” 

After I discovered that Loeb & Loeb LLP attorney Christian Carbone’s wife, Sasha Angelique Carbone, was an executive for the AAA and worked closely with the unlawfully appointed arbitrator Timothy K. Lewis, the American Arbitration Association, P. Kevin Castel of the Southern District of New York and the Second Circuit refused to acknowledge the conflict of interest that was created by Carbone’s highly unethical conduct/failure to disclose or conclude that arbitration was an inappropriate forum for this landmark human rights case, after learning that Loeb & Loeb LLP was engaging in a “pattern” of fraud upon the Court on William Morris’ behalf to keep claims of racial discrimination from being decided by an impartial jury. 

Source: Andrew Keshner. “Arbitrator’s Ties to Law Firm Prompt Judge to Vacate Awards.” New York Law Journal. April 7, 2015.