Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs & Shapiro, LLP v. Goff

JOHNSON, J., Dissenting.—

I

The majority asks, “[c]an a court treat an arbitration award as binding and hence unreviewable solely on the grounds that the arbitrator both ruled it is binding and had authority to rule on that issue!” (Maj. opn., ante, at p. 437.) As this division held in Greenspan v. LADT, LLC (2010) 185 Cal.App.4th 1413 [111 Cal.Rptr.3d 468] (Greenspan), the parties may submit to arbitration issues they were not contractually compelled to submit to arbitration, and the arbitrator’s ruling on such issues is not reviewable by any court. Yet, ignoring Greenspan and the very limited…