Legal Opinion
ABCO Builders, Inc. v. Progressive Plumbing, Inc.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided July 13, 2007No. S07G0257PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Melton, Justice.
In Progressive Plumbing v. ABCO Builders, 281 Ga. App. 696 (637 SE2d 92) (2006), the Court of Appeals reversed the ruling of a superior court that, because an arbitration panel had shown a manifest disregard for the law, the arbitration award in favor of Progressive Plumbing, Inc. had to be vacated. We granted certiorari to consider the extent to which a superior court has authority to vacate an arbitrator’s award in the absence of a transcript of the underlying arbitration hearing. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.
Because our state arbitration code closely tracks…
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