Anheuser-Busch, Inc. v. Beer

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that it was unnecessary for an arbitrator to look beyond the contract when its terms were unambiguous
• vacating award when arbitrator ignored express contractual language providing for specific commission rate for drivers and awarded different rate based on parties’ past practice despite explicit contract language prohibiting arbitrator from considering past practice
• “reliance on the law of the shop is appropriate to interpret ambiguous contract terms” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• “reliance on the law of the shop is appropriate to interpret ambiguous contract terms” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• “[O]ur concern is limited to whether the arbitrator went beyond, or outside, the bounds of interpreting the contract” and “disregarded the very language of the agreement itself.”
• Arbitrator cannot shield himself from judicial correction by merely ‘making noises of contract interpretation’.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).