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· 8/23/1984

Miller Brewing Company v. Brewery Workers Local Union No. 9, Afl-Cio

Citations

  • 739 F.2d 1159

How courts have described this case

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

  • indicating that an arbitrator is confined to interpreting the collective bargaining agreement rather than applying his own ideas of right and wrong
  • vacating arbitration remedy putting grievant in better position than he would have been in if there had been no violation of the CBA
  • “suit or defense . . . brought in bad faith—brought to harass rather than to win”
  • “It is almost unimaginable that if the question had come up in the collective bargaining negotiations [the parties would have agreed to the award.]”
  • involving a union representing the brewers in Milwaukee
  • superseded by statute on other grounds

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Judges: Posner, Flaum, Nichols

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