Morrison Granted Discovery in Amway suit in Texas

Morrison Granted Discovery in Texas

granting discovery request to the plaintiffs of the Morrision suit in Texas, Judge Melinda Harmon grants the Morrisons discovery rights before the final arbitration award can be granted. From the wording of the order, Morrison lost the arbitration and Amway/Quixtar won. However, it does not come as any surprise that Amway appointed and trained arbitrators would ever rule against Amway.

Morrison is challenging the arbitration award, so we can assume he lost big time. Before a final judgement can be entered those who challenge an arbitration award for evident partiality or corruption are entitled to discovery when the question posed cannot be gauged from the face of the arbitral record. The motion stated

"The Court concludes that such is the case here: the current record is insufficient to allow the Court to determine the precise nature of the contacts between Jody Victor and Anne Gifford, as well as the precise nature of the relationship between Defendant Amway Corporation and JAMS."

The order goes on to mention that "Defendants shall cooperate with Plaintiffs' discovery requests and in particular shall produce to Plaintiffs all discovery produced to the plaintiffs in Nirto Distributing, Inc. et al. v. Alticor. Inc." (Brig Hart's, and Kenny Stewart's suit in Federal Cour in Missouri.)

It appears the Morrisons are now challenging if JAMS is really a neutral arbitrator. See related article. If Morrison can show the arbitration was not neutral then the case can go back to public court.

See story about Amway Diamond Bruce Anderson and his dealings with JAMs private retrial of a case he won in public court.

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