Tri-State Business MacHines, Inc. v. Lanier Worldwide, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding trial court erred by not ordering post-confirmation remand to clarify ambiguity in language used in arbitration award
• “[D]istrict courts are not to interpret ambiguous arbitration awards, but rather should remand such awards for clarification.”
• if an award is unclear, it should be sent back to the arbitrator for clarification
• “It is a fundamental tenet of the law of contract remedies that . . . an injured party should not be put in a better position than had the contract been performed.” (quoting E. Allan Farnsworth, Contracts § 12.8, at 874-75 (2d ed. 1990))

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