Also known as: Uniform Arbitration Acts · UAA
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A uniform state statute that supplies procedures for enforcing arbitration agreements, conducting hearings, and confirming or vacating awards.
Uriah Urban and Urban Logistics sign a supply agreement with an arbitration clause. A disagreement over delivery dates leads them to arbitration. After the arbitrator rules, Urban Logistics asks the court to confirm the award. The court grants confirmation because the statute restricts review to narrow statutory grounds.
Utopia Pharmaceuticals leases land from the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission under a contract governed by the statute. An arbitration panel interprets a disputed lease paragraph and issues an award. Utopia moves to vacate the award for alleged legal error. The court denies the motion because the statute allows vacatur only for fraud, irregularity, or partiality by the arbitrators.
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View caseIt establishes rules for compelling arbitration, conducting proceedings, and confirming or vacating awards in states that have enacted it.
A court may vacate an award only upon proof of corruption, fraud, evident partiality, or arbitrator misconduct that prejudices a party.
An arbitration agreement made before the effective date remains governed by the prior Uniform Arbitration Act unless the parties elect otherwise.
The Act does not affect any action or proceeding commenced or right accrued before it takes effect.