City of Fairbanks Municipal Utilities System v. Lees

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that courts do not review the merits of an issue submitted to arbitration, because “arbitration should be a final and binding means of dispute resolution, not a mere prelude to litigation”
• arbitration should be a final and binding means of dispute resolution, and courts should follow a policy of minimal interference with arbitration
• error must be manifestly clear in order for a court to modify or correct award
• In upholding an arbitrator’s decision to exclude certain witnesses, we stated that “[u]nder these circumstances, we find that the arbitrator’s decision was not gross error.”
• “[W]e must determine whether the arbitrator’s exclusion of evidence deprived Lees of his right to a fair hearing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).