Saint Mary Home, Inc. v. Service Employees International Union, District 1199 New England Health Care Employees Union, Afl-Cio

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• “When parties to an agreement bargain for an arbitrator’s decision, that bargain may not be upset by a court simply because it deems the decision incorrect”
• “[C]ourts may refuse to enforce arbitral awards only in those rare cases when enforcement of the award would be directly at odds with a well defined and dominant public policy resting on clear law and legal precedent.”
• “Internal inconsistencies in the opinion are not grounds to vacate the award notwithstanding [appellant’s] plausible argument that the arbitrator’s decision was misguided or our own concerns regarding the arbitrator’s conclusion.”
• ‘‘[n]owhere does the [employer] point to an established policy that calls for a fixed disciplinary action of permanent dismissal in all cases [in which] drug related conduct occurs in the workplace’’
• “Internal inconsistencies in the opinion are not grounds to vacate the award notwithstanding the [petitioner’s] plausible argument that the arbitrator’s decision was misguided or our own concerns regarding the arbitrator’s conclusion.”
• arbitral remedy of reinstatement upheld unless there exists a public policy against reinstatement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).