5 U.S.C. § 577
Section 577 · Arbitrators
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Pennington v. United States Postal Service (1980)
Most recently applied in Cayuga Nation v. Bernhardt (March 2019)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) The parties to an arbitration proceeding shall be entitled to participate in the selection of the arbitrator.
(b) The arbitrator shall be a neutral who meets the criteria of section 573 of this title.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Termination of Section
For termination of section by section 11 of Pub. L. 101–552, see Termination Date; Savings Provision note set out under section 571 of this title.
Amendments
1992—Pub. L. 102–354, §3(b)(2), renumbered section 587 of this title as this section.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–354, §3(b)(3), substituted “section 573” for “section 583”.