James Freeman v. Pittsburgh Glass Works LLC

OPINION

SMITH, Circuit Judge.

James Freeman recently lost an arbitration dispute. Soon thereafter, he discovered that the arbitrator had received contributions for a judicial campaign from PPG Industries, the defendants’ minority owner. Freeman filed a motion to vacate the arbitration award, but he conveniently failed to mention that the law firm representing him had contributed a far greater amount to the same campaign. The District Court denied the motion, and we will affirm.

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Freeman was a director of operations at PPG Auto Glass until his firing in 2008. At the time of Freeman’s firing, PPG…