United Food & Commercial Workers International Union, Local 588 v. Foster Poultry Farms

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• recognizing that the party seeking to vacate an arbitration award bears the burden of showing that it violates an explicit, well-defined and dominant public policy
• holding that the party seeking to vacate the arbitration award bears the bur- den of establishing that the award violates an explicit, well- defined, and dominant public policy
• noting that courts will not enforce an arbitration award when it violates a public policy that is explicit, well-defined, dominant, and “one that specifically militates against the relief ordered by the arbitrator” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)
• “In this circuit, because federal labor policy strongly favors the resolution of labor disputes through arbitration, ‘[j]udicial scrutiny of an arbitrator’s decision is extremely limited.’”
• “An arbitration award must be confirmed as long as the arbitrator is even arguably construing or applying the contract and acting within the scope of his authority.” (citations, quotation marks, and alterations omitted)
• “An arbi- tration award must be confirmed as long as the arbitrator is even arguably construing or applying the contract and acting within the scope of his authority.” (citations, quotation marks, and alterations omitted)

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