Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. v. Intel Corp.

Opinion

WERDEGAR, J.

California law allows a court to correct or vacate a contractual arbitration award if the arbitrators “exceeded their powers.” (Code Civ. Proc., §§ 1286.2, subd. (d), 1286.6, subd. (b).) In Moncharsh v. Heily & Blase (1992) 3 Cal.4th 1, 28 [10 Cal.Rptr.2d 183, 832 P.2d 899], we held arbitrators do not exceed their powers merely by erroneously deciding a contested issue of law or fact; we did not, however, have occasion there to further delineate the standard for measuring the scope of the arbitrators’ authority. This case requires us to decide the standard by which courts…