Nick Marino v. Writers Guild of America, East, Inc. Writers Guild of America, West, Inc. Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo

FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judge:

Nick Marino appeals the district court’s summary judgment in favor of the Writers Guild of America (“WGA”), Francis Coppola and Mario Puzo in Marino’s action seeking to vacate an arbitration award. WGA, as arbitrator, awarded screenwriting credit for “Godfather III” to Coppola and Puzo, and not to Marino and his cohort, Thomas Wright. Marino contends that the arbitration procedures used to determine the screenwriting credit were fundamentally unfair. Marino also argues that WGA violated its duty of fair representation by adopting the arbitration procedures and by…