Judge Confirms $150K Refined Sugar Award, Calls Denial Of Receipt ‘Vexatious’

( May 22, 2026, 10:40 AM EDT) -- ORLANDO, Fla. — A Florida federal judge confirmed a Refined Sugar Association (RSA) panel’s arbitral award worth more than $150,000 against a Florida entity for failure to perform on a sugar sales contract and ordered the entity to show why it should not be sanctioned for its “vexatious” denial of receipt of the award to defend its untimely filing of a counter-petition to vacate....