West Rock Lodge No. 2120, International Ass'n of Machinists & Aerospace Workers v. Geometric Tool Co.

WATERMAN, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal appellant Geometric Tool Company (hereinafter “employer”) which had obtained an arbitration award against respondent West Rock Lodge No. 2120, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO (hereinafter “union”) seeks to set aside an order of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut vacating the award as void when the arbitrator rendered it. The court handed down its decision after consideration of cross motions for summary judgment and in its written opinion noted that although federal common law…