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Setting The Standard For Overturning An Arbitrator's Award That Violates Public Policy - United Paperworkers International V. Misco, Inc., Brian Darling
Journal of Dispute Resolution
For over forty years, the United States Supreme Court has recognized the principle that great deference is to be given by the courts to the decisions of arbitrators.2 The Court has applied this same deferential standard in reviewing arbitration awards which are challenged on the basis of being in violation of public policy.3 The well settled rule is that a court must enforce the award unless it violates a well defined, explicit public policy that is ascertained "by reference to the laws and legal precedents and not from general considerations of supposed public interest."4 Recently, the Supreme Court reaffirmed this …