Is a $630 million arbitration award in a case against Western Digital the largest sanction ever imposed by a U.S. tribunal?

That’s what lawyers for Western Digital argued last week in an attempt to vacate the eye-popping award, which an arbitrator in Minnesota levied late last year to resolve claims that Western Digital stole trade secrets from rival hard drive maker Seagate Technology.

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