Shaffer v. Board of School Directors

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing difficulty, if not impossibility, of determining whether an arbitrator actually acted in a biased fashion
• arbitration award vacated where arbitrator’s father was vice-president of international union whose local union was a party to the arbitration proceeding
• disqualification of any arbitrator who had professional or even social dealings with one of the parties “would make it impossible, in some circumstances, to find a qualified arbitrator at all.”
• “Familiarity with a discipline often comes at the expense of complete impartiality.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).