PRETRIAL ADJUDICATION
...Contract Arbitration
......Modify/Vacate Award: Other Bases & Issues
.........Failure to Disqualify Self
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Ground to vacate award if arbitrator failed to timely disclose ground for disqualfiication or was subject to disqualification on neutrality grounds but failed—on receipt of timely demand—to disqualify self. Collective bargaining exception.

Provisions for arbitrator disqualification set by Cal. Legislature may not be waived or superseded by private contract; arbitrator’s refusal to disqualify himself following party’s timely demand rendered award subject to vacatur.