11th Circuit Grants En Banc Review Of $7M Award After Panel Questioned Precedent

Mealey's (October 6, 2022, 1:40 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 5 granted en banc review of a panel’s ruling affirming the denial of a Guatemalan contractor’s petition to vacate an arbitral award worth more than $7 million for a canceled hydroelectric dam project and vacated the ruling of the merits panel, which argued that en banc review is needed because the original panel was “powerless to change the course” of circuit precedent that is “out of line with Supreme Court precedent.”...