Cuna Mutual Insurance Society v. Office and Professional Employees International Union, Local 39

How courts have described this case

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

• collecting cases upholding Rule 11 sanctions imposed when parties to arbitration challenge that process, and the challenge is “substantially without merit”
• affirming imposition of Rule 11 sanctions in employer’s “meritless” challenge to arbitrator’s interpretation of CBA
• stating “there is an abundance of case law in both this circuit and other circuits that recognizes the propriety of an arbitrator retaining jurisdiction over the remedy portion of an award”
• “The court must undertake an objective inquiry into whether the party or his counsel should have known that his position is groundless.”
• “The Court must ‘undertake an objective inquiry into whether the party or his counsel should have known that his position is groundless’”
• “Rule 11(c) … allows courts to impose sanctions on a party if the requirements of Rule 11(b) are not met.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).