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During the arbitration, the independent board member Larry Meyer declared under penalty of perjury that he was “managing the orderly shutdown of the company.”

As the claims involving Kaiser went through arbitration, the rest of the suit — targeting the state — had been proceeding in federal court.

In the 2014 arbitration, the panel ruled that Russia launched “a full assault on Yukos and its beneficial owners in order to bankrupt Yukos and appropriate its assets while, at the same time, removing Mr. Khodorkovsky from the political arena.”

Hawkes called arbitration the final step of a frustrating process that left her feeling overmatched and barely heard.

However, with Bellinger entering his final season of arbitration, the Dodgers were faced with a tricky financial decision just weeks later: Tender the outfielder a contract that would likely pay him more than $18 million, or save the money and allow him to become a free agent.