The University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees v. Hellenic Society Paideia-Rhode Island Chapter

Syllabus

The defendant, Hellenic Society Paideia – Rhode Island Chapter, challenged a judgment of the Superior Court that confirmed an arbitration award in favor of the plaintiffs, the University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees and the University of Rhode Island. The defendant argued that the trial justice erred in affirming the arbitration award based on the arbitrator's manifest disregard of the law in his arbitration decision and his issuance of an indefinite remedy. The Supreme Court determined that the defendant failed to demonstrate that the arbitrator acted in a manner that would permit the Court to disturb his award and therefore affirmed the Superior Court judgment.