Elm City Local, CACP v. New Haven

Citations

• 230 Conn. App. 847

Syllabus

The plaintiff union appealed from the judgment of the Superior Court denying its application to vacate an arbitration award in favor of the defendant city. The plaintiff claimed that the court improperly concluded that the arbitration panel did not exceed its powers when it determined that the defendant had just cause to terminate the employment of one of the plaintiff's members, an officer with the defendant's police department. Held: The trial court properly concluded that the arbitration award conformed to the parties' submission to the arbitration panel, the arbitration panel having decided an issue that the parties had given it the authority to decide. This court declined to review the plaintiff's claim that the trial court improp- erly refused to vacate the award because the arbitration panel's reliance on a certain expert opinion constituted a manifest disregard of the law, as the plaintiff abandoned that claim in the Superior Court and failed to adequately brief it before this court. Argued January 7—officially released February 25, 2025