Henegan Construction Co. v. Bettinger & Leech, Inc.

Resettled order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Irma Vidal Santaella, J.), entered April 23, 1992, inter alia, confirming an arbitration award in favor of plaintiff, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Defendant failed to meet its "heavy burden” of demonstrat*764ing arbitrator misconduct "by clear and convincing proof’ (Matter of Dember Constr. Corp. [New York Univ.], 190 AD2d 537; Matter of Disston Co. [Aktiebolag], 176 AD2d 679, lv denied 79 NY2d 757). CPLR 7505 authorizes an attorney in an arbitration proceeding to issue subpoenas, and defendant can hardly complain that…