Jan. 13 Deadline Set in Petition to Vacate Amazon Arbitration Award
U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams for Southern New York gave Hong Kong-based Jiakeshu Technology a Jan. 13 deadline to file any "additional materials" to support its petition to vacate an Aug. 4 arbitrator’s award in Amazon’s favor, said her order…
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Wednesday (docket 1:22-cv-10119). Case law governs that vacatur proceedings for arbitration awards must be treated as akin to a motion for summary judgment, said the order. Amazon’s response to Jiakeshu’s Jan. 13 filing is due Feb. 10, and Jiakeshu’s optional reply is due Feb. 24, it said. The arbitrator let Amazon keep $50,000 in Jiakeshu’s sales proceeds after Amazon deactivated Jiakeshu’s third-party store for improperly paying customers to submit positive reviews (see 2212010065).