9 U.S.C. § 13 — Papers filed with order on motions; judgment; docketing; force and effect; enforcement

submitted 79 years ago by ch. 392 to r/title-9-ARBITRATION · 167 words · no verdicts yet

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When someone files a court order confirming, changing, or fixing an arbitration award, they must also file the arbitration agreement, arbitrator appointments, time extensions, the award itself, and all related notices and court orders. The court then enters judgment as in any other case. That judgment works, and can be enforced, just like any regular court judgment.

This section lists what must go into the court file when an arbitration award becomes a judgment, and confirms that judgment's power. Whoever asks the court to confirm, modify, or correct an award must, when filing that order with the clerk for entry of judgment, also file: (a) the arbitration agreement; the selection or appointment of any additional arbitrator or umpire, if there was one; and each written extension of time to make the award, if any; (b) the award itself; and (c) every notice, affidavit, or other paper used in the application to confirm, modify, or correct the award, plus a copy of every court order made on that application. The judgment gets docketed just as if it came from a regular lawsuit. Once entered, that judgment has the same force and effect as a judgment in a regular lawsuit, follows all the same laws that apply to such judgments, and can be enforced the same way a judgment from a case filed in that court would be enforced.

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The party moving for an order confirming, modifying, or correcting an award shall, at the time such order is filed with the clerk for the entry of judgment thereon, also file the following papers with the clerk:

(a)

The agreement; the selection or appointment, if any, of an additional arbitrator or umpire; and each written extension of the time, if any, within which to make the award.

(b)

The award.

(c)

Each notice, affidavit, or other paper used upon an application to confirm, modify, or correct the award, and a copy of each order of the court upon such an application.

The judgment shall be docketed as if it was rendered in an action.

The judgment so entered shall have the same force and effect, in all respects, as, and be subject to all the provisions of law relating to, a judgment in an action; and it may be enforced as if it had been rendered in an action in the court in which it is entered.

Source credit: (July 30, 1947, ch. 392, 61 Stat. 673.)

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1947Enacted · Act of July 30, 1947, ch. 392 · 61 Stat. 673

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

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