Service Employees International Union, Local 18 v. American Building Maintenance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a provision which stated \the issue in dispute may be submitted to an impartial arbitrator\ gave an employee a right to have the issue submitted to arbitration, regardless of the use of the word \may.\
• holding that a provision which stated “the issue in dispute may be submitted to an impartial arbitrator” gave an employee a right to have the issue submitted to arbitration, regardless of the use of the word “may.”
• “Among its many connotations the word “may” is sometimes used in granting to either of opposing parties a right, or privilege, with regard to the dispute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).