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Zimmer v. Insall: The Power of Arbitration Agreements in Patent Royalty Disputes

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Marvel Entertainment, LLC , 576 U.S. The Supreme Court directly revisited the rule in Kimble, but ultimately chose to uphold the rule based on stare decisis. 29 (1987), the court noted that it could not reconsider the merits of an award even if the arbitrators made factual or legal errors in interpreting a contract.

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The Nigerian Court of Appeal declines to enforce a Commonwealth of Virginia (in USA) Choice of Court Agreement

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If that is so, as is indeed it is, how much less can parties by their private acts remove the jurisdiction properly and legally vested in our Courts ? 8] It should be stressed that Oputa JSC’s obiter dictum is not binding on lower courts according to the Nigerian common law doctrine of stare decisis.

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