Hughes Training Inc. v. Cook

ROBERT M. PARKER, Circuit Judge:

Appellants Gracie and Littleton Cook appeal from the district court’s final judgment that vacated an arbitration award against Gracie Cook’s former employer, Raytheon Company. 1 The Cooks argue that the district court applied an incorrect standard of review to the arbitrator’s decision and that, even if the court applied the correct standard of review, the facts support the arbitrator’s award of damages for intentional infliction of emotional distress.

I. Facts

Hughes Training hired Gracie Cook as a senior engineering assistant in 1993. 2 When she accepted the…