award within the three-month limitations period bars him from raising the alleged invalidity of the award as a defense in opposition to a motion to confirm the award. Cullen v. Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, Inc., 863 F.2d 851, 854 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, -U.S. -, 109 S.Ct. 3159, 104 L.Ed.2d 1022 (1989). Here, Hume failed to move to vacate the award within three months of the time the award was issued. Under Cullen, Hume is therefore barred from raising §§ 10 and 11 defenses in this motion to confirm. 5 . This case was decided prior to the close of business on September 30, 1981, and is binding precedent under Bonner v. City of Prichard, 661 F.2d 1206, 1209 (11th Cir.1981) (en banc). 6 . Cf. O.R. Securities v. Professional Planning Assoc., 857 F.2d 742, 748 (11th Cir.1988) (<HOLDING>). Bonar v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., 835 F.2d
holding in the analogous context of a motion to vacate an arbitration award under 9 usc  12 that pjlaintiffs were required to serve notice through the united states marshal and that because the notice requirement expressly addresses the manner of serving notice of motion to vacate   the federal rules of procedure  relating to service are inapplicable holding that an aaa arbitration was a private proceeding and therefore that a decision by the arbitrator pursuant to the federal arbitration act did not constitute state action holding that because the federal arbitration act provides that requests for relief should be made by motion rather than by filing a complaint the rules of notice pleading provided for in fedrcivp 8 do not apply to a proceeding to vacate an arbitration award holding that an order remanding an arbitration award is not a final appealable order when the order does not also vacate the arbitration award holding that the role of the courts is limited to ascertaining whether there exists one of the specific grounds for the vacation of an award as provided in  10 of the arbitration act and that the court should not review the arbitration proceeding for errors of law or fact