Legal Opinion
UMass Memorial Medical Center, Inc. v. United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local 1445
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 15, 2008No. 07-2527, 07-2528PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRITT, Senior Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, UMass Memorial Medical Center (“Hospital”), seeks a judgment vacating an arbitration award that was entered in favor of the defendant, United Food and Commercial Workers Union (“Union”). The issue is whether the district court erred when it upheld the arbi-tral award and denied the defendant’s request for attorney fees. For the reasons stated below, we uphold the affirmance of the arbitral award and the denial of fees.
I. Background
The Union submitted a grievance to the Hospital in October 2004, pursuant to the grievance procedure contained in the…
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