Civil Service Employees Ass'n v. Soper

Order reversed,-, with costs, and motion to confirm arbitrator’s award granted. All concur, Cardamone, J.P., not participating. Memorandum: Petitioner Wanda Taft, an employee at the Newark Developmental Center, and petitioner CSEA appeal from an order at Special Term which denied petitioners’ motion to confirm an arbitrator’s award. Special Term directed a new hearing before a different arbitrator on the ground that the arbitrator who heard this case was guilty of misconduct because he refused to hear testimony from a mentally retarded witness patient at the center. The case arises from a…