In seeking en banc review, attorneys are telling Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal that its prior ruling laid “a minefield of uncertainty and will open the courthouse doors to countless challenges to arbitration decisions that, prior to the opinion, were barred as a matter of law.”
Eugene Stearns, Maria Fehretdinov and Alejandro Rodríguez, partners at Stearns Weaver in Miami, represent the appellee, Royal Merchant Holdings LLC, in a case in which the Third DCA vacated a $1.5 million arbitration award against the appellant, the Ferraro Law Firm, that they said in an interview would make arbitration “more expensive and more convoluted.”
