Mahoning County Board of Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities v. Mahoning County TMR Education Ass'n

The issue in this case is whether the arbitrator exceeded his authority by ordering the board to grant Bagnoli’s transfer request.

Arbitration occurs when disputing parties contractually agree to resolve their conflict by submitting it to a neutral third party for resolution. It provides the parties with a relatively speedy and inexpensive method of conflict resolution and has the additional advantage of unburdening crowded court dockets. The whole purpose of arbitration would *84be undermined if courts had broad authority to vacate an arbitrator’s award. Thus, this court has stated, “[i]t is the…