Henneberry v. ING Capital Advisors, LLC

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert D. Lippmann, J.), entered November 2, 2005, which denied the petition to vacate an arbitration award and granted the cross petition to confirm the award, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Petitioner failed to show that the award confirming termination of her employment was “violative of a strong public policy, or is totally irrational, or exceeds a specifically enumerated limitation on [the arbitrator’s] power” (Matter of Silverman [Benmor Coats], 61 NY2d 299, 308 [1984]). “[A]n arbitrator is not bound by principles of substantive law or by…