State, Office of the State Auditor v. Minnesota Ass'n of Professional Employees

KEITH, Chief Justice.

In this case, we are asked to decide whether to recognize a public policy exception in Minnesota which would justify overturning an arbitrator’s award if that award violates a well-defined and dominant public policy of the state.

This case arose out of a grievance filed by the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees (MAPE) on behalf of Mark C. Beer (“Beer”), a local government auditor who had been discharged by the state auditor on April 15, 1991, for falsifying expense reports and for being untruthful during an investigation into that misconduct. Beer worked in…