Anderman/smith Operating Co. v. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• The doctrine oí functus officio is designed to prevent an arbitrator from revisiting an award; it protects the finality of an arbitrator’s decision
• “The arbitration panel clearly acted within the scope of its authority by reading the contract to avoid a result which would impute to the contract an unconscionable bargain.”
• To “draw its essence from the contract,” an arbitration award must “have a basis that is at least rationally inferable, if not obviously drawn, from the letter and purpose” of the contract
• award must at least be rationally inferable from the agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).