Legal Opinion
Raytheon Company v. Automated Business Systems, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 4, 1989No. 89-1157PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:
This case requires us to determine whether commercial arbitrators have the power and authority to award punitive damages pursuant to a general contractual arbitration clause which does not specifically provide for the award of such damages. In January 1988, appellant Raytheon Company (“Raytheon”) received some unpleasant news. The panel of arbitrators that had presided over an arbitration between Raytheon and a former dealer in Raytheon-manufactured word processing equipment, Automated Business Systems (“Automated”), had found in favor of Automated and had awarded the…
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