Golden v. WorldQuant Predictive Technologies, LLC

Citations

• 235 Conn. App. 377

Syllabus

The plaintiff appealed from the trial court's judgments denying his applica- tion to vacate an arbitration award and granting the defendants' application to confirm that same award, which had been issued in connection with an employment dispute. The award was issued in favor of the defendant W Co., the plaintiff's former employer, and the defendant B, a member of W Co.'s board of managers. The plaintiff claimed, inter alia, that the court improperly failed to vacate the award because the arbitrator exceeded the scope of the arbitration submission and acted in manifest disregard of the law in awarding attorney's fees and costs to the defendants. Held: The plaintiff's failure to include the trial court docket number of the defen- dants' application to confirm the arbitration award on his appeal form did not render his appeal moot, as the defendants provided no authority indicat- ing that a party's failure to list all of the trial court docket numbers on an appeal form in accordance with the rule of practice (§ 61-7 (a) (1)) deprived the trial court of subject matter jurisdiction, and the appeal form filed by the plaintiff provided notice to the defendants that the plaintiff was challeng- ing the propriety of both the judgment denying his application to vacate the award and the judgment granting the defendants' application to confirm the award. The plaintiff could not prevail on his claim that the trial court improperly failed to vacate the arbitration award because the arbitrator both exceeded the scope of the arbitration submission and acted in manifest disregard of the law in awarding attorney's fees and costs to the defendants, as the plain language of the arbitration clause in the plaintiff's employment agreement provided that the prevailing party was entitled to receive an award of attor- ney's fees and costs in addition to all other damages to which such party was entitled, the alleged ambiguity in the arbitration clause regarding the arbitrator's ability to awa