Georgia Power Co., Counter-Defendant v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 84, Counter-Claimant

RONEY, Senior Circuit Judge:

In this appeal from a summary judgment vacating an arbitration award, we affirm the judgment of the district court which held that the damages awarded by the board of arbitrators were punitive in nature and therefore impermissible in light of the arbitrators’ finding that punitive damages were not warranted under the circumstances of this breach of a collective bargaining agreement.

Plaintiff Georgia Power Company and Defendant International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 84 (Union) executed a Collective Bargaining Agreement effective July 1, 1987. This…