State of New York Unified Court System v. Association of Surrogate's & Supreme Court Reporters

Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Barbara Jaffe, J.), February 29, 2012, compelling arbitration, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the arbitration is permanently stayed.

While we find no statutory, constitutional or public policy prohibition against arbitration of this dispute as to the termination of an employee (see Matter of Incorporated Vil. of Lake Grove v Civil Serv. Empls. Assn., 118 AD2d 781 [2d Dept 1986]), a review of the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) discloses that the parties did not agree to arbitrate the dispute (see Matter…