Providence Journal Co. v. Providence Newspaper Guild

How courts have described this case

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

• noting the “parties and the arbitrator agreed to bifurcate the arbitral proceeding and understood the determination of liability to be a final award”
• stating “basic principle of contract law” that constructions which “render contract terms meaningless should be avoided”
• “court’s task ‘is limited to determining if the arbitrator’s interpretation of the contract is in any way plausible’ ”
• arbitrators are allowed to use the parties’ past practice “as an interpretive device or as relevant evidence”
• courts should avoid a construction that renders a contract term meaningless
• extending Hart Surgical to informal bifurcation agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).