Legal Opinion
Amalgamated Transit Union v. Md. Transit Admin.
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided December 23, 2019No. 1591/17Published
1Opinion of the Court
Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 1300 v. Maryland Transit Administration, No. 1591, September Term 2017 Opinion by Kehoe, J. ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION – ARBITRATION – REVIEW, CONCLUSIVENESS AND ENFORCEMENT OF AWARD The scope of judicial review of arbitral awards is very narrow. Courts generally defer to an arbitrator’s findings of fact and her application of the law, even when these are erroneous. The rationale for this general rule of deference is both practical (if arbitral awards were constantly subjected to judicial second-guessing, arbitration would cease to be a simple and…
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