Salem Hospital v. Massachusetts Nurses Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that in reviewing an arbitrator's interpretation of her own authority under the parties' agreement, we ask \whether the arbitrator had a plausible basis for her determination\
• noting that the task of a court \is to determine whether the arbitrator exceeded his authority by failing to apply the contract in a plausible manner\ (citation omitted)
• noting that the task of a court “is to determine whether the arbitrator exceeded his authority by failing to apply the contract in a plausible manner” (citation omitted)
• “[j]udicial review of an arbitration decision is extremely narrow” and “is among the narrowest known in the law”
• arbitrator’s conclusion that last sentence of provision was ambiguous was not plausible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).