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9 U.S.C. § 7 — Witnesses before arbitrators; fees; compelling attendance

submitted 79 years ago by ch. 392 to r/title-9-ARBITRATION · 224 words · no verdicts yet

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Arbitrators can order people to appear as witnesses and bring documents. Witnesses get the same fees as witnesses in federal court. If someone ignores the order, a federal court can force them to appear or punish them for contempt.

Arbitrators chosen under this title, or otherwise — or a majority of them — may send a written summons ordering any person to appear before them as a witness. In the right case, they can also order that person to bring along any book, record, document, or paper that might matter as evidence. Witnesses who are summoned get paid the same fees as witnesses appearing before masters of the U.S. courts. The summons must be issued in the name of the arbitrator or arbitrators (or a majority of them), signed by them, addressed to the person being summoned, and served the same way a court subpoena is served. If a person who is summoned refuses or fails to obey, someone can file a petition with the U.S. district court for the district where the arbitrators are sitting. That court can force the person to appear, or punish them for contempt, using the same methods the courts use to make witnesses attend or to punish witnesses who refuse or neglect to attend.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

The arbitrators selected either as prescribed in this title or otherwise, or a majority of them, may summon in writing any person to attend before them or any of them as a witness and in a proper case to bring with him or them any book, record, document, or paper which may be deemed material as evidence in the case. The fees for such attendance shall be the same as the fees of witnesses before masters of the United States courts. Said summons shall issue in the name of the arbitrator or arbitrators, or a majority of them, and shall be signed by the arbitrators, or a majority of them, and shall be directed to the said person and shall be served in the same manner as subpoenas to appear and testify before the court; if any person or persons so summoned to testify shall refuse or neglect to obey said summons, upon petition the United States district court for the district in which such arbitrators, or a majority of them, are sitting may compel the attendance of such person or persons before said arbitrator or arbitrators, or punish said person or persons for contempt in the same manner provided by law for securing the attendance of witnesses or their punishment for neglect or refusal to attend in the courts of the United States.

Source credit: (July 30, 1947, ch. 392, 61 Stat. 672; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, § 14, 65 Stat. 715.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1947Enacted · Act of July 30, 1947, ch. 392 · 61 Stat. 672
  • 1951Amended · Act of Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655 · 65 Stat. 715

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 392 on 1947-07-30.

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