MATTER OF MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH, INC.


198 A.D.2d 181 (1993)

604 N.Y.S.2d 78

In the Matter of the Arbitration between Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Incorporated, et al., Respondents, and A. Webster Dougherty & Co., Inc., et al., Respondents, W.R. Lazard & Laidlaw, Inc., Respondent, and Matthews & Wright, Inc., Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

November 30, 1993


The arbitrators' denial of appellant's request to produce millions of pages of unspecified documents, later reduced, cannot be characterized as misconduct in the sense of refusing to hear pertinent and material evidence. The fraud sought to be proven by such documents was determined by the arbitrators not to be pertinent and material, and therefore the documentation sought would not have undermined petitioners' right to recover even if it did exist. Thus, the arbitrators...

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