Court Deals a Loss to Man Who Was Trying to Buy Tampa Bay Storm

A state appeals court in Florida has ruled that an arbitrator did not exceed his authority when he ordered the former partner of a group that was trying to buy a football team to pay the group $3.5 million after he violated the terms of the partnership.   Central to the appeals court’s ruling was the fact that the former partner, Robert Nucci, M.D., “elected to proceed before the arbitrator,” meaning “he could not claim that the arbitrator exceeded his authority.”   The partn