Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, and United Transportation Union

How courts have described this case

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

• noting than an arbitrator cannot merely make “noises of contract interpretation” to shield his decision from judicial review
• criticizing those courts that have blurred the distinction between gross errors and ultra vires acts
• calling judicial “review” a misnomer due to the extreme deference we give an arbitrator’s decision
• wrongful discharge claim under section 2, Fourth
• “An arbitrator’s award may be overturned only if the reviewing court is convinced that he was not trying to interpret the collective bargaining contract but that instead he resolved the parties’ disputes according to his private notions of justice. The test is not error; it is ultra vires.”
• giving rise to a minor dispute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).