Matter of Koenig v. DiNapoli

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• holding that in labor arbitration disputes, if the court determines that the arbitration made “any interpretation or application of the agreement at all,” its inquiry ends
• noting that we may set aside that decision only if it “fails to ‘draw[] its essence from the collective bargaining agreement,’ such that the arbitrator is merely ‘dispens[ing] his own brand of industrial justice’” (alterations in original
• “‘[A]rbitrators have no obligation to give their reasons for an award at all,’” and a court may not “‘infer the non- existence of a particular reason merely from the award’s silence on a given issue.’”
• “‘[A]rbitrators have no obligation to give their reasons for an award at all,’” and a court may not “‘infer the non- existence of a particular reason merely from the award’s silence on a given issue.’”
• “Once a matter is submitted to arbitration, procedural questions which grow out of the dispute and bear on its final disposition are presumptively not for the judge, but for an arbitrator, to decide.” (emphasis, citation, and internal quotation marks omitted)
• “The question is not . . . whether the arbitrator’s interpretation of the agreement was ‘plausible,’ in the sense of one a court might render, but instead whether he made any interpretation or application of the agreement at all. If so, the court’s inquiry ends.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).