Upshur Coals Corporation v. United Mine Workers Of America

How courts have described this case

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• arbitration award involving interpretation of law may be reversed where arbitrators understand and correctly state the law, but ignore it
• “As long as the arbitrator is even arguably construing or applying the contract[,] a court may not vacate the arbitrator’s judgment.” (quotation marks omitted)
• “An arbitration award is enforceable even if the award resulted from a misinterpretation of the law, faulty legal reasoning or erroneous legal conclusion.”
• “An arbitrator’s award is entitled to a special degree of deference on judicial review.”
• “An arbitrator’s award is entitled to a special degree of deference on judicial review.”

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