Willhite v. Farmers New World Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• establishing that \the parties to a CBA have no legal authority to contravene state law by word or deed\
• stating that \[a]n arbitrator cannot resolve a labor dispute by issuing a ruling that would . . . compromise the statutory authority or legal obligations of a department of state government\
• stating the “fundamental proposition” that “applicable state * * * law trumps * * * contrary practices of the parties”
• upholding vacation of an arbitration award where \arbitrator exceeded his authority by deciding an issue that was not arbitrable ab initio\
• “statutory obligations cannot be bargained away via contrary provisions in a [collective bargaining agreement], nor can they be compromised by the past or present practices of the parties”
• labor disputes and grievances that seek to modify applicable state law are not subject to arbitration because the arbitrator has no power to do so

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).