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REVISED UNIFORM ARBITRATION ACT

March 31-April 2, 2000

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

We hope to use this meeting primarily to put our draft of the RUAA in the best possible shape for submission to the Executive Committee to be placed on the agenda of the annual meeting in August for a final reading. I would ask each of you to read the draft to determine if there are any errors in either substantively or in the language of both the sections and the Reporter's Notes.

At the meeting we plan first to complete the reading and discussion of the Act section-by-section with 26 through 31. Then we will review the following sections or subsections to which we made substantial changes at our last drafting committee meeting:

2, Notice

4, Nonwaivable Provisions

8(c), Waiver of Provisional Remedies

10, Consolidation

14, Immunity

15(a), Arbitration Process

17(b) Evidentiary Deposition

21(a) and (b), Remedies-punitive damages and attorney's fees

23(a)(2) and (6), Vacatur as to partiality or misconduct and as to improper notice

25(a) Judgment

We ask that any members of the drafting committee, academic advisors or observers who wish to make substantive proposals on any section of the draft to submit them in writing to the Reporter by March 20. The Reporter has assigned to various members of the drafting committee the review of particular sections of the RUAA to lead the discussion as to language changes for that particular section in either the body of the Act or in the Reporter's Notes.

The starting time for each session is: Friday, March 31, 9:00 a.m.

Saturday, April1, 8:30 a.m.

Sunday, April 2, 8:30 a.m.