The Georgia Court of Appeals is weighing whether an attorney fee award reduced to $78,000 from $524,000 should be vacated because the arbitrator was impaired by strong back pain medication when he amended the award after oral argument on Tuesday. Presiding Judge Stephen Dillard, however, was wary of upholding the vacatur of an arbitration award.
“I had a conversation with [an judge] and I asked him: in all your time on the bench, how many arbitration awards did you vacate? He said none. It doesn’t happen,” said Dillard.
