ABCO Builders, Inc. v. Progressive Plumbing, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• indicating that in some cases, vacatur can be authorized based on “the face of the award”
• explaining that the disregard must be both evident and intentional; an arbitrator who incorrectly interprets the law has not manifestly disregarded it; and to manifestly disregard the law, one must be conscious of the law and deliberately ignore it
• refusing to set aside arbitration award in the absence of “concrete evidence” of arbitrator’s intent to purposefully disregard the law
• explaining that a party moving to vacate an arbitration award on account of the arbitrator’s manifest disregard of the law must provide evidence that the arbitrator was both “conscious of the law” and “intentionally and knowingly chose to ignore” it (quotation omitted)
• affirming court of appeals’ decision to reverse the ruling of a superior court vacating an arbitration award because there was no evidence of a manifest disregard of the law
• refusing to review the sufficiency of the evidence in support of an arbitrator’s award, and reversing trial court’s vacation of the award in the absence of a transcript or detailed findings of fact

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).