The Beacon Journal Publishing Company v. The Akron Newspaper Guild, Local Number 7

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the arbitrator did not arguably construe the agreement because he imposed an additional term not found in the agreement
• observing that “[t]he Supreme Court has made clear . . . that courts must accord an arbitrator’s decision substantial deference because it is the arbitrator’s construction of the agreement, not the court’s construction, to which the parties have agreed”
• reviewing arbitrator's interpretation of vacation provisions and holding that the award—which imposed additional requirements not expressly stated in the contract — did not draw its essence from the agreement
• “[Cjourts must refrain from reversing an arbitrator simply because the court ... believes the arbitrator made a serious legal or factual error.”
• “[C]ourts must refrain from reversing an arbitrator simply because the court . . . believes the arbitrator made a serious legal or factual error.”
• “Arbitrators commonly utilize past practice or industry customs to interpret the meaning of ambiguous, or even general, terms and clauses in a contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).