Judge Allows Amendment To Pleadings In Liberian Shipping Row Due To New Evidence

(September 9, 2024, 1:48 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A New York federal judge on Sept. 6 granted a British Virgin Islands (BVI) investment company’s motion to amend its answer and cross-petition seeking vacatur of a JAMS arbitral award issued against it in a contract dispute with the Liberian affiliates of a shipping company, finding that newly produced evidence from a separate bankruptcy proceeding showed that the shipping affiliates’ arguments before the arbitrator were “untrue.”...